Ebenezer W. Warren, pastor of First Baptist Church of Macon, Georgia, months ago preached that African slavery is unquestionably biblical. Many other Southern Baptist pastors have also preached this central message of the South from their pulpits. Yet for an institution ordained by and blessed of God, the war has already revealed that enslaved Africans…
Patriots in Attleboro, Massachusetts gather at the First Baptist Church (founded in 1817) to prepare themselves spiritually before marching off to war. The volunteer soldiers have been training for weeks on the Baptist Common, in front of the Baptist church between Park and North Washington streets. Today is Sunday. The men, Company I of the…
For weeks, the Civil War has been a common subject of discussion when Baptists gather on Sundays. Whether spoken of from the pulpit or in the church yard, the talk is often animated. No where is this perhaps more true than in the Border States, where loyalties are clearly split and pro-slavery and anti-slavery convictions…