Baptist newspaper editors of the South search Northern papers for any hint of negative press regarding the United States, often re-printing suitable articles with appropriate commentary. Such is the case in this week’s Virginia Religious Herald newspaper. We are indebted to a friend, for a late copy of the New York Independent–the organ of the…
Texas Baptists meet this month for their annual convention, collecting funds for army missions and destitute home front families and hearing reports of yet-growing educational institutions. The Texas Baptist State Convention met at Independence, on Saturday before the fourth Sunday in October. A delegation nearly twice as large as that of last year was present. …
Each week during the war, editors of (white) Southern Baptist newspapers offer a potpourri of short pieces that collectively reveal their perspectives of the great conflict. By and large, these gatekeepers of denominational news are ardent supporters of the Confederacy, albeit the nuances of their shared nationalism (like that of the white South at large)…