As a result of the war, Baptist Sunday worship services in the South have taken on a new dimension. The war and the fate of the Confederacy are never far from the minds of congregants throughout the South, while preachers often utter some words that directly or indirectly refer to the crisis. Yet matters of…
John Beauchamp Jones is a successful novelist and newspaper man who is now working as a clerk in the Confederate war office in Richmond, Virginia. Formerly living in the American West, his novels focus on the West and the South. While working for the Confederate government, Jones maintains a daily diary of his wartime experiences.…
Ebenezer W. Warren, pastor of First Baptist Church of Macon, Georgia, months ago preached that African slavery is unquestionably biblical. Many other Southern Baptist pastors have also preached this central message of the South from their pulpits. Yet for an institution ordained by and blessed of God, the war has already revealed that enslaved Africans…