Today Georgia’s Sarepta Baptist Association meets in annual session, gathering at Millstone Church in Oglethorpe County to pray and preach and lift each other in the face of sober news trickling down to them after the battle of Chickamauga. Although Confederate forces won the battle, the rebels lost more soldiers than did the invaders, and…
War pressures are doing strange things to some Baptists of the South. Abandoning any pretext of being faithful to the Baptist heritage of religious liberty for all, two editorials in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index insist that the Confederate government govern by biblical laws regarding the Sabbath. One editorial goes so far as to…
An editorial in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index article speaks to the “present situation,” that is, the challenges to the Confederate cause in recent months. He who can view our present “Situation” without an intelligent degree of soberness, is certainly dead to a just appreciation of the crisis. Beyond a doubt perils of an…