Baptist newspapers this week deign to peer into the future. While there is no unanimity as to what the future holds, for Baptist periodicals of the South a gaze forward at least offers the opportunity — if one so wishes — to lay aside the national disasters of 1863. Unlike the gloom and doom pronounced…
As it has done on a number of occasions in recent months, the South Carolina Confederate Baptist, edited by Jacob M. C. Breaker, again blasts Christians of the Confederacy, including many Baptists, who insist on further entwining church and state in the already de facto Christian Confederate States of America. Church state union is a…
Baptist newspapers North and South greet the new year in various ways. Northern Baptist newspapers are generally optimistic about the year that lies ahead, while Baptist newspapers of the South run editorials ranging from despair to ambivalence to defiance. Will the United States prove capable of putting down the rebellion this year? What does the…