Life is becoming increasingly difficult for southerners living in the border state of Maryland. This week’s South Carolina Confederate Baptist reflects upon a story making the rounds among the Baptist press of the South. Amid the contradictory reports which have reached us from this state, it is gratifying to have the explicit statement of one,…
From the presidency of Thomas Jefferson to the present, many Christians in America — including many Baptists of the South since the commencement of the present war — have complained of the United State’s founding as a secular nation. Movements to rewrite the Constitution as a Christian document, and to forbid Sunday mail delivery —…
Today’s edition of the South Carolina Confederate Baptist weighs in on two hot issues: slavery and church state separation. Of the former, most white Baptists of the South are largely in agreement that African slavery is God’s will and that blacks are intellectually incapable of handling freedom. The editor of the Confederate Baptist summarizes these…