Clashes intensify along the lower Mississippi River as U.S. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant continues his relentless pursuit of capturing the strategic river city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The key city of Jackson, Mississippi, having been occupied by Union troops for two days, is by now mostly destroyed as Grant’s army moves out of the city this…
Should Southern Baptists (and Confederate Christians at large) hate their brethren in the North? An editorial in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder seeks to answer this question. The Marquis of Hartington, who visited the South some months ago, said, in a speech delivered since his return to England, that the feeling by which…
Even as some Southern Baptists rejoice over revivals in the Confederate army, others lament over the evilness of Confederate soldiers. Can God’s nation be saved by an unrighteous army? An editorial in today’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index sounds a dire warning. The demoralization of our army is said to be fearful. An intelligent gentlemen said…