Today’s North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder demonstrates solidarity with other white Southern Christians in reprinting a Confederate Presbyterian’s helpful suggestion for the Confederate States of America: “Let our Confederacy Call upon God.” We are in the very crisis of the war. The present campaign seems to be ours, but the enemy is raising a new…
Today South Carolina Baptist minister William L. Curry, born in 1836, is appointed as the chaplain of 50th Georgia Regiment. A graduate of Furman University and with degrees from the Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (all in South Carolina), Curry is well educated. Ordained in 1860, he sought appointment as a…
James M. Pendleton is a well-known Baptist preacher and newspaper editor (assistant editor of the Tennessee Baptist) in Tennessee and among many other rural Baptists in portions of the South. He is also the author of an influential book, An Old Landmark Re-Set (Old Landmarks Revisited), published in 1856 and the figurehead volume advocating Landmarkism…