Weatherford, Texas is experiencing a multi-denominational Christian revival, as reported in the Galveston Weekly News. Ed. News.—It may be interesting to some of your numerous readers to hear of a protracted meeting that is going on here. It has now been in progress for 27 days and nights, and when it will stop time can…
A brief article in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder echoes advice from the South Carolina Confederate Baptist regarding church members who are growing corn partially to turn into whiskey, and partially to sell at high profits to the public, while food is ever more scarce in the South. The Confederate Baptist, in reply…
Southerner Jacob Eliot (1803-1870) of Corsicana, Texas is a successful attorney, a slaveholder, and the church clerk of the Corsicana Baptist Church. A senior citizen during the war, he assists the war effort on the home front. He also keeps a journal during the war, in which the entires tend to be brief and to…