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…
Today’s North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder demonstrates solidarity with other white Southern Christians in reprinting a Confederate Presbyterian’s helpful suggestion for the Confederate States of America: “Let our Confederacy Call upon God.” We are in the very crisis of the war. The present campaign seems to be ours, but the enemy is raising a new…
Confederate private J. E. W. Henderson, born in 1829 in Georgia and now a resident of Alabama, today experiences that which Baptists of the South are praying for their soldiers: salvation. After the war he serves as a Primitive Baptist minister and editor, preaching the Gospel of local-church centric missions and ministry (rather than denominationally-coordinated…