Baptist churches South and North navigate the war years in a variety of ways. Many Baptist churches of the Confederacy are forced to close their doors due to the loss of so many members to the army, lack of pastoral leadership, economic pressures, proximity to army activity, confiscation by the Union Army, or a combination…
North Carolina Baptists this week read of the work of Baptist pastor B. F. Jessup, who is ministering to wounded and sick Confederate soldiers in the Confederate hospital in Wilmington, the city which had experienced a devastating outbreak of yellow fever the previous fall. I am often affected to tears in my morning rounds (through…
North Carolina Biblical Recorder editor J. D. Hufham today offers a commentary on sin in the Confederacy. A short time since we noticed a gentleman indulging in practices which in other days, he would severely and justly have censured in another. He stood high in the estimation of his brethren, for the consistency and apparent…