This week Basil Manly Jr., co-editor of the newly-formed Baptist Sunday School Board along with John A. Broadus, from South Carolina sends a letter under a flag of truce to Richard Fuller, pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore. Manly is desperate to obtain New Testaments for use in Sundays Schools in Southern Baptist…
Readers of Southern Baptist newspapers are, by now, fed a steady diet of news regarding the religious condition of the Confederate army, and this week is no exception, as an article in today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder testifies. The letters, which we have been publishing for weeks, will give our readers some notion of…
In today’s edition of the Georgia Baptist Christian Index, editor Samuel Boykin extols, with soaring rhetoric, the virtues of his fellow Southern whites — and the loyalty of African slaves — in the midst of the war, encouraging all to resist the enemy and remain faithful to the ideals of the Confederacy. Our people, be…