This week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder reprints a summary of a rousing nationalistic sermon delivered during a recent “prayer meeting for the country” at the the First Baptist Church of Macon, Georgia. Ebenezer W. Warren of patriotic sermon fame is the pastor of the Macon congregation. Sylvanus Landrum, prominent Georgia Baptist minister and pastor…
Opining in this week’s Christian Index, Georgia Baptist editor Samuel Boykin, appropriating the language of providence, situates the Confederacy both under God’s control and as a part of God’s Kingdom. He also castigates the North for driving down the value of southern slaves and thwarting the Christian South’s efforts to save the souls of southern…
Before a packed sanctuary at the First Baptist Church of Macon, Georgia, Ebenezer W. Warren, pastor of the Macon congregation, delivers a sermon defending black slavery as biblical. (The Macon Telegraph printed the sermon in its February 7, 1861 edition.) Warren ties slavery explicitly to the Bible and the will of God, arguing that biblical…