Baptists and the American Civil War: October 17, 1863

Meeting at the Liberty Grove Baptist Church in Alexander County, North Carolina, the United Baptist Association passes a resolution on army colportage and affirms unwavering support of the Southern Confederacy. The Report on Colportage reads: Your committee on Colportage submit the following : “Whereas, our country is in a distracted condition, and so manv of…

Baptists and the American Civil War: July 7, 1862

An editorial in this week’s Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index addresses the primary of family and the moral foundations of the Confederacy, explaining that the future of the nation rests upon the shoulders of today’s Caucasian parents, who must train up their white, male children in the (Southern) ways of God. Religion, to exhibit its loveliest…

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