In the war between the the slave-holding Confederacy and the evil abolitionist North, many Southern Baptist leaders are convinced that God will ultimately rescue his chosen nation, despite the defeats–now three months distant but no less agonizing–at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. An editorial in today’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index epitomizes this certitude. Truly our young Confederacy…
War pressures are doing strange things to some Baptists of the South. Abandoning any pretext of being faithful to the Baptist heritage of religious liberty for all, two editorials in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index insist that the Confederate government govern by biblical laws regarding the Sabbath. One editorial goes so far as to…
An editorial in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index article speaks to the “present situation,” that is, the challenges to the Confederate cause in recent months. He who can view our present “Situation” without an intelligent degree of soberness, is certainly dead to a just appreciation of the crisis. Beyond a doubt perils of an…