U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s Emancipation Proclamation has not only stirred feelings North and South, but also across the Atlantic Ocean. England, having outlawed slavery decades ago, harbors enough interest in the matter that at least one meeting is convened to discuss the proclamation, as is reported in today’s New York Times. Next week, a few…
The writings and sermons of Charles Spurgeon, perhaps the best-known Baptist preacher in the world, remain unwelcome in the Confederate States of America. A long-outspoken opponent of African slavery and a minister in a nation (England) that has spurned Confederate offers of a military alliance, Spurgeon this month, in his London Metropolitan Tabernacle, returns to…
The Confederate Congress has been meeting all week. Richmond’s First Baptist pastor, J. Lansing Burrows, is a fixture, offering the opening prayer of many of the congressional sessions. Meanwhile, from across the Atlantic Ocean, today’s edition of The Illustrated London Daily News offers commentary on the distant conflict. The important news has been received that…