As the month of October draws to a close following recent reversals for the Confederate Army, this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index offers words of encouragement to the white citizens of God’s chosen nation. Enslavement of the black race, and liberty and freedom for the white race, is God’s will and worth fighting for at…
The editor of North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder, J. D. Hufham, this week offers a few remarks about the spiritual challenges of army camp life and then refers to a news item concerning religion among Confederate soldiers. We are pleased to learn, from various quarters, that a deep religious feeling prevails among many of our…
In the wake of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, and from the context of a firm commitment to God’s willing of the enslavement of the African race, Baptists in the Confederacy continue searching for some other acceptable reason for God not yet leading His chosen nation to victory over the evil United…