An editorial in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index article speaks to the “present situation,” that is, the challenges to the Confederate cause in recent months. He who can view our present “Situation” without an intelligent degree of soberness, is certainly dead to a just appreciation of the crisis. Beyond a doubt perils of an…
Christian editors and writers in the slave-based Confederacy, a nation whose constitution invokes “the favor and guidance of Almighty God,” continue their quest to identity the sins of the nation. In this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index, in the agonizing wake of the losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, an editorial argues that the leaders of…
The struggle over Confederate public morale continues. The North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder urges readers to maintain faith in their country. One of the duties of the hour, incumbent on every christian patriot, is to have faith for his country. The face of the sky, lately so fair and cloudless, so cheering to every beholder…