While the world now knows of U.S. President Abraham’s Lincoln plans to emancipate African slaves in the South as of January 1, Baptist newspapers of the South continue publishing commentaries praising African slavery as God’s will and the hope of the Christian world. Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder prints just such a commentary, a piece…
Yesterday’s announcement of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation by United States President Abraham Lincoln cheers many Baptists of the North, and re-energizes Northern Baptist commitment to the Union cause of freedom for all. Among today’s new soldier enlistments is that of eighteen year-old George W. Rogers of New York. Rogers is a Primitive Baptist, the same…
Many Baptist associations of the South meet this month, and the war is a frequent theme interspersed in associational meetings. This weekend, the Rehoboth Baptist Association of Georgia, meeting at the Forsyth Baptist Church in Monroe County, offers insight into the multi-dimensional impact of the great conflict. Missions, a major concern of Southern Baptists, is…