Less than two weeks before United States President Abraham Lincoln is scheduled to legally free African slaves within the Southern states rebelling against the U.S., a commentary in North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder reminds Baptists that slaveowners, not abolitionists, are “the only true friends” of the black race. This war has unmasked the hypocrisy and…
Southern Baptist foreign mission and Indian mission efforts have fallen by the wayside, spiritual casualties of the war. In their place is a now-intense focus on mission work among the Confederacy’s white men serving in the army. Believing they are called of God to save the army in order to save the nation, Baptist leaders…
Against the backdrop of the year drawing to a close, readers learn details of Southern Baptist Convention mission efforts in a report from Virginia Baptists’ Religious Herald newspaper that is republished in other Baptist newspapers of the South. Reflecting the currently shuttered status of the Richmond organization, the news contained in the missions report is…