At a time when the Confederacy’s fortunes seem to be on the upswing, this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder publishes a commentary on “Providence and this War.” You launch a loose plank on the swollen river, and from the bank watch patiently its course, as it drifts along–but you cannot guide it. It is…
Tennessee is home to many poor white Baptists, as Tennessee Baptist editor J. R. Graves is well aware. Acknowledging the circumstances of his readers, Graves often during the war years publishes, or re-publishes from other sources, advice on how to cope with hard times. U. S. blockades on southern trade routes portend a coming year…
Alabama’s secession convention continues. Accompanying James DeVotie as a secession convention delegate is fellow Baptist Samuel Henderson, Tuskegee pastor and editor of the South Western Baptist state paper. With DeVotie, Henderson is an avowed secessionist. Somewhat of an outlier among Baptists in the South at large, Henderson since the early 1850s has been an advocate…