Against the backdrop of looming spring battles, God — and a mysterious God at that — is on the mind of United States President Abraham Lincoln as he issues a statement on this day set aside for “national prayer and humiliation.” Many are the Baptists of the North who embrace their president’s words. A man…
Today a North Carolina army missionary, a minister working to distribute Christian literature among North Carolina’s confederate soldiers, from Goldsboro (east of Raleigh) pens a letter reminding home front North Carolinians that the future of the Confederacy lies in the hands of “our young men” in the army. …. Remember my dear friends that nearly…
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s Emancipation Proclamation has energized the North in the war for freedom for all. Meanwhile, Southern Baptist leaders do their part to encourage white Southerners in their quest to forever enshrine white supremacy and African slavery in the Confederate States. This week, J. D. Hufham, editor of North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder,…