The trend of Baptist congregations in southern cities donating church bells to be cast into Confederate cannons is growing. Today’s Richmond Dispatch announces: Patriotic Example. – The congregation of the Second Baptist Church in this city have set an example that may challenge emulation, but for self-sacrificing patriotism cannot be excelled. They met not long…
Today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch commends four Georgia churches – including one Baptist congregation – for their public displays of patriotism: The correspondence which follows explains itself. We give it a place in our columns as showing the determined spirit with which the [various] religious denominations are resolved in the prosecution of the present war. It…
The public use of alcohol has dropped dramatically in portions of the South, much to the approval of Southern Baptists. Confederate President Jefferson Davis’ recent declaration of martial law in Richmond, coupled with prohibitions against the distillation and selling of alcohol, offers some hope that God’s obvious displeasure toward the new nation, evidenced in recent…