The war years heighten a growing concern among many Baptists: alcohol. While most Baptist churches yet use wine (often homegrown) in communion, and few Baptists advocate total abstinence, more Baptist leaders voice disapproval of the widespread use of hard liquor, while local Baptist congregations wage a war upon drunkenness, expelling many male members for overconsumption.…
The Hephzibah Baptist Association of Georgia is now in annual session. Meeting at Bark Camp in Burke County, Hephzibah Baptists recommend church Sunday Schools and report on the progress of a college preparatory school operated by the association. Among other advances, a new school building has recently been completed and 84 students are currently enrolled.…
Delegates to the recent Rehoboth Baptist Association of middle Georgia, held at Traveller’s Rest Baptist Church in Macon County, are this week reporting back to their respective congregations. Rehoboth Baptists, assured of God’s hand upon the Southern Confederacy, have proudly made their convictions known: In the midst of the stiring events which are to effect…