In today’s edition of the Georgia Baptist Christian Index, editor Samuel Boykin extols, with soaring rhetoric, the virtues of his fellow Southern whites — and the loyalty of African slaves — in the midst of the war, encouraging all to resist the enemy and remain faithful to the ideals of the Confederacy. Our people, be…
Even as some Southern Baptists rejoice over revivals in the Confederate army, others lament over the evilness of Confederate soldiers. Can God’s nation be saved by an unrighteous army? An editorial in today’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index sounds a dire warning. The demoralization of our army is said to be fearful. An intelligent gentlemen said…
The annual meeting of the Georgia Baptist Convention continues in Griffin. The (Southern) Baptists gathered in the town’s first Baptist church are a mixture of city and rural ministers. Some own large numbers of slaves, and most are supportive of the peculiar institution whose financial profits under gird Southern Baptist missions. As such, perhaps it…