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…
John Randolph Tucker, the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, tonight lectures at the Second Baptist Church of Richmond to the Young Men’s Christian Association on the subject of “The Southern Church justified in its support of the South in the present war.” Tucker begins his discourse with a disclaimer concerning church and state.…
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…