Many Northern Baptist associations meet this week and voice support of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln’s recent call for emancipation of slaves in the border states. Meanwhile, many white Southern Baptist continue marching off to war in defense of African slavery. Among those enrolling today is 26-year old William M. Williams of Buchanan, Georgia, whose…
While Southern Baptist army missionary A. E. Dickinson argues that Confederate Army camp life offers an opportunity to complete the Christian evangelization of Southern states, an anonymous Southern Baptist professor, utilizing flowery language not uncommon of the day, disagrees: An appeal to the soldiers of the Confederate States, by an old instructor, many of whose…
Confederate Army camp life perplexes Southern Baptists. While lamenting over the evils in the camps, they also relish the possibility of evangelizing the masses of southern men who are housed in cramped, crude quarters far away from home and hearth. Such an environment, some Southern Baptists contend, should make the South’s men more open to…