Not all white Baptists of the South are enamored with the war. An anonymous editorial in Georgia Baptist’s Christian Index pleads with pastors to keep war and pulpit separate: “Brethren of the ministry, we earnestly exhort you not to let your minds be diverted from your legitimate business by the excitements of the day. The…
Daniel Fuller Hutchinson is from a Baptist family, and in the post-war years, an active member of First Baptist Church Reading, Massachusetts. Born at Greenfield, New Hampshire in 1839, he learned the trade of carriage making. Like many other tradesman, however, he puts aside his business and joins the Union Army, enlisting today at Boston.…
As publicly and repeatedly affirmed by both North and South, slavery is the cause of the present Civil War, preceded in 1845 by the creation of the Southern Baptist Convention in defense of African slavery as God’s will. Now, more and more slaves are taking emancipation into their own hands, fleeing their masters and seeking…