A North Carolina Baptist minister this week rallies the faithful to their patriotic duties, via a stirring newspaper commentary. At a public meeting in Albermarle county, Virginia, the county in which President Jefferson lived and died, the people passed these resolutions: 1. To pay all their tax in kind. 2. To take another tenth from…
As the war rages ever on, Southern Baptists continue hammering upon several sin themes to explain the South’s inability–yet!–to defeat the evil United States. Among the sins of the Confederacy that prevent God thus far from handing victory to His chosen nation are: extortion (the most common theme), Sabbath breaking, vice in the army camps,…
Throughout the Confederacy, Baptist associational gatherings taking place in recent months have routinely taken up collections for use in ministering to soldiers through Bible and literature distribution or other missionary work in the camps. Delegates at such meetings are exclusively men, yet leading lights in Southern Baptist life also seek to appropriate women, who have…