Today the Confederacy observes a national day of fasting and prayer as appointed by president Jefferson Davis. Richmond’s Daily Dispatch writes of the day: This day is recommended by the President to be observed as a day of fasting and prayer through out the Confederacy. We cannot doubt that, as on all former occasion of…
The North Carolina Baptist State Convention, assembled in the fall of 1861, requested that “Baptist churches within its bounds to observe as a day of fasting and prayer the Sunday preceding its next meeting.” That “next meeting” will take place in Wake Forest on the 29th of this month, with the “day of fasting and…
White Baptist commitment to the Confederacy is similar to that of the South’s other Christian denominations: many if not most embrace (in some fashion or another) the Confederacy as God’s Kingdom on earth, while few publicly disagree with the belief that African slavery is God’s will for the black race. Calvinism, a long-held Christian belief…