Amos C. Dayton (1811-1865), a popular Baptist pastor and advocate of Landmarkism, this month offers his answer to the Southern question of, “Is God on Our Side?” Regarding African slavery, the Confederacy is clearly on God’s side, according to Dayton. But on certain issues of government holiness and purity, the South needs to align itself…
Readers of this week’s North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder are treated to an essay entitled, “Who Will Stand in the Gap”?, which in part declares: In a time of abounding iniquity, God once said to his ancient people, after preferring sundry heavy charges against them, “As they gather silver into the midst of the furnace…
This week’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder publishes a letter from a correspondent in the 1st Regiment of N. C. State Troops, identified as J. H. F. The correspondence echoes what many other Baptists in the Confederate army are saying: the South’s soldiers, by and large, are far from being Christian men. I am alone in…