The Bible Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, founded in 1851 and tasked with printing bibles for Southern Baptist mission agencies, has fallen upon difficult times. Having been headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, the fall of that city in February 1862 and subsequent closing of physical operations has taken a toll on the organization. Despite the…
Thanks in large part to the efforts of Southern Baptists, Christian literature is proliferating in Confederate Army camps. Stories of the positive effect of such literature are now circulating in the Baptist press of the South, such as the following story told by an army colporter. One young man told me that he dated his…
Today Liberty Baptist Church in Wilkinson County, Ga, gathers for a monthly business meeting. The third item on the agenda is a request from Richard L. Lavender “to take him under the watch care of the church until he returns from the war and wright (sic) to him on the subject.” Presumably church clerk Wiley…