This week’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reports on a discussion of an unusual topic at the recent “Ministers and Deasons’ Meeting” of the state’s Central Baptist Association: extortion. Some white Christians of the Confederacy, in seeking to determine why God has not yet given victory to his chosen nation and instead is allowing the war…
As Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s invasion of Maryland continues — albeit with spirited opposition from Union General George B. McClellan and invoking the anger of many Marylanders — U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, from the White House, hopes for the best. Lincoln, however, is not inactive as he waits for encouraging news from Maryland. For…
The war routinely causes confusion in Baptist congregations located in areas of the South where battles take place or where the United States army is otherwise present. Services are frequently disrupted, sometimes for months or years on end, as the war rages on. Today is a day of discord for the New Garden Baptist Church,…