This month the Siloam Baptist Church of Greene County, Georgia meets and does something unusual for Baptist churches of the South during the war: they formally discuss the death of a soldier member. Baptists, long accustomed to not allowing the outside world to infiltrate worship services and business meetings, typically do not officially discuss in…
For months, many Northern Baptists have been agitating the U.S. Congress to pass a confiscation act that will permanently free African slaves. Today, their wishes, as well as those of many Northern Christians at large, are granted, as Congress passes the Second Confiscation Act that is, in effect, an emancipation proclamation that grants permanent freedom…
Many white Southern Baptists do not mince words when excoriating the United States, as one example in today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder amply demonstrates. Mr. Ely, a Federal Congressman, who, our readers will recollect, was captured at the battle of Manassas and for some time confined in Richmond, as a prisoner of war, was…