Not one to mince words or skirt around issues, Samuel Boykin of Macon, Georgia – editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index and member of the First Baptist Church of Christ in Macon – sums up, for his readers, the reason why the South is at war, and explains that the South will triumph because African…
While the South fulminates over Abraham Lincoln’s impending inauguration, some Southern Baptists are more concerned with internal religious matters, such as the issue of what constitutes true faith. From the pen of E. B. Tragce of Georgia this week: “The Christian professor [believer] has always oscillated between orthodoxy with the few, and latitudinarianism with the…
Abraham Lincoln’s journey to his Washington, D. C. inauguration continues. Leaving New York City, the president-elect travels through New Jersey en route to Philadelphia. In the highly-charged political climate, rumors of assassination attempts swirl. Nonetheless, Lincoln is well-received in New Jersey, and a reported 250,000 people turn out to greet him in Philadelphia. From afar,…