A pseudonymous Baptist writer of the South offers his perspective of the Church, the Confederacy and the war in this week’s Baptist press: Money! Money! Money! is all the cry.–Money for the soldiers–money for their dependent families–money for war taxes–and yet no cotton selling–or if selling, not at remunerative prices. Never so much money demanded…
The lead article in today’s Christian Index is a commentary by Georgia Baptist minister E. R. Carswell, a pastor in Waynesboro, Georgia. He thus offers his thoughts regarding “The War,” replete with a sober assessment of the southern economy, the greed of planters, and recent battlefield reversals — as well as issuing a stirring call…
Joseph S. Baker, a prominent Southern Baptist minister serving in Thomasville, Georgia, offers his perspective on the state of the Confederacy in a letter printed in the Christian Index: ….We need religious papers more now than ever. The war is not only laying waste our country; it is desolating Zion. From every quarter of the…