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…
The Battle of Fredericksburg is now over, having been a humiliating defeat for the United States Army. Yet death has visited both North and South. An eyewitness account from a North Carolina Baptist soldier–a member of Reeds Baptist Church–written after the battle, recounts the carnage taking place around him in Confederate ranks on the day…
“Devoted to Religion, Morality, Literature and General Intelligence.” Thus reads the tagline of North Carolina Baptists’ newspaper, the Biblical Recorder. In the spirit of that mission, and during a time when many Baptist churches of the South are struggling to keep the door’s open as the war rages on and on, this week’s edition of…