From the presidency of Thomas Jefferson to the present, many Christians in America — including many Baptists of the South since the commencement of the present war — have complained of the United State’s founding as a secular nation. Movements to rewrite the Constitution as a Christian document, and to forbid Sunday mail delivery —…
An editorial in this week’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald posits that if everyone in the Confederate States would simply believe the biblical gospel, then Southern troubles would “vanish into air.” Lamenting the lack of gospel belief in the North, the writer makes no bones about the true gospel being that of racial purity–white supremacy and…
News of the revivals among Baptists of the South are not confined to Baptist newspapers only. The nightly meetings at two of Richmond’s Baptist congregations merit mention this week in the Richmond Daily Dispatch: Revival meetings among Baptists are attracting sizable numbers of attendees. A protracted Meeting is being held every night in the Second…