In the wake of the demoralizing setbacks of the past two weeks in Tennessee — and in acknowledgment of the recent termination of the South’s provisional government and the formal installing of a permanent Confederate government — today is a day of national prayer and thanksgiving throughout the Confederate States of America, as proclaimed by…
Joseph S. Baker, a prominent Southern Baptist minister serving in Thomasville, Georgia, offers his perspective on the state of the Confederacy in a letter printed in the Christian Index: ….We need religious papers more now than ever. The war is not only laying waste our country; it is desolating Zion. From every quarter of the…
News of the Union occupation of Nashville is filtering throughout the South, accompanied by no little alarm. Days will pass before the Baptist press is able to comment on this unfortunate turn of events for the Confederacy. At the moment, however, a currently circulating editorial by Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, offers…