From today’s Richmond Times Dispatch, “A Matter of Prophecy“: Elder Pratt preached in Boston, on Sunday, on the doctrines and practices of the Mormon Church.–The prophet said there was to be a downfall of nations, beginning with the rebellion of South Carolina, as has been revealed to Joe Smith twenty-eight years ago, but the Saints…
Georgia has seceded from the Union, and many white Baptist leaders in the state cheer the decision. From the pages of the state Baptist newspaper The Christian Index, editor Samuel Boykin lends his support – and solicits that of all other Southern Baptists in the state – to Georgia’s formal embracing of the growing Confederate…
In Georgia, the state’s secession convention continues under the leadership of Governor Joseph Brown, a Southern Baptist. Delegates pass a Bill of Rights for white citizens of the new Confederate state. The document both declares that Georgia is a Christian nation, and disallows a religious establishment: The prevalence of the Christian Religion among the people,…