In this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder, a contributer calls upon his fellow Southern Baptists to never give up the fight against the United States. The following remarks of the Fayetteville Observer will meet with the approbation of every patriot in the land. In the language of the editor in a previous issue, “It…
As the magnitude of the Confederate losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg sink into the public consciousness of the South, Christian Index editor and Southern Baptist journalist Samuel Boykin offers his perspective on the crisis at hand, emphatically declaring the inevitable triumph of Southern white supremacy. [The Crisis of our National Affairs] Is undoubtedly upon us,…
Days after the Confederacy suffers enormous battlefield losses at Gettysburg, and before many Southerners have heard the news, the Elon Baptist Church of the Dover Association in Virginia goes on record declaring that Christian duty demands obedience to Confederate government officials. In addition, the congregation insists that Christians must “aid and encourage them [Confederate government…