Today is the second day of the bi-annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention held at the First Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia. The day’s events begin with a reading of Psalm 71 (link), a scriptural passage that invokes God’s wrath against the enemies of righteousness. The passage is applied to the United States and…
A flurry of activity takes place this first day of March, three days prior to Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration. Texas officially becomes the seventh state to join the Confederate States of America, Confederate president Jefferson Davis appoints General P. G. T. Beauregard as Brigadier General and orders him to Charleston, and the United States Congress rejects…
in Montgomery, Alabama (illustration), the newly-established Congress of the Confederate States of America, over which Southern Baptist leader Basil Manly, Sr., presides as chaplain, issues a statement that forebodes the military conflict soon to ensue: Resolved by the Confederate States of America in Congress assembled, That it is the sense of this Congress that immediate…