Despite the reversal of fortunes in the Confederacy, Southern Baptist leaders remain firm in their support of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. For his part, Davis often couches the war against the United States as a holy war, as he does yet again today in an address to soldiers via General Orders No. 19. Davis’s optimistic…
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…
Convened at the Barnwell Baptist Church in South Carolina’s Barnwell District (County), Baptist delegates of the Savannah River Baptist Association voice both weariness and resolute hope concerning the war. Another year has passed and we find ourselves still afflicted by the scourge of war. So far as human observation is concerned, the plot of this…