In the border state of Maryland, Baltimore’s First Baptist Church–according to an account two decades following the war–weathers the war years quite well, although sadness of an unusual variety marks this day. Another season of refreshing visited the Church in 1863, resulting in the addition of a small number by baptism, by letter and by…
Southern Baptist newspapers frequently appeal to Confederate soldiers to place their faith in God and hope in the afterlife, appropriating images of mothers, wives and sisters. The following appeal in circulation this week is one example: Soldier of the Southern Confederacy! –To you I would fain speak a few words, and though others wield the…
In this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder, a contributer calls upon his fellow Southern Baptists to never give up the fight against the United States. The following remarks of the Fayetteville Observer will meet with the approbation of every patriot in the land. In the language of the editor in a previous issue, “It…