The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina is wrapping up their annual convention. The subject of war has arisen a number of times, including a lengthy discussion of the need to put religious periodicals–particularly the state Baptist paper, the Biblical Recorder–into the hands of Confederate soldiers. Seemingly the most spirited debate related to the war…
The North Carolina Baptist State Convention, assembled in the fall of 1861, requested that “Baptist churches within its bounds to observe as a day of fasting and prayer the Sunday preceding its next meeting.” That “next meeting” will take place in Wake Forest on the 29th of this month, with the “day of fasting and…
Meeting in the weeks following U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s announcement of a forthcoming Emancipation Proclamation that will free African slaves from the ten southern states yet in rebellion against the United States, Vermont Baptists offer a hearty endorsement of Lincoln’s actions: “Resolved, that the proclamation recently put forth by our Chief Magistrate, looking to the…