By this point in the Civil War, the Confederacy’s three evangelical denominations–Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists–are frequently echoing one another when it comes to stoutly defending African slavery and prognosticating ultimate Confederate victory as the will of God. Prominent ministers, writers and journalists of all three denominations also in unison revile the North and U.S. President…
Following a string of prior Northern Baptist resolutions supporting U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s recent Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Ohio Baptists, assembled at their annual state convention this month, offer their own resolution. “Whereas the powers that be are ordained of God, and he that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God,” and is threatened with…
News of the Union occupation of Nashville is filtering throughout the South, accompanied by no little alarm. Days will pass before the Baptist press is able to comment on this unfortunate turn of events for the Confederacy. At the moment, however, a currently circulating editorial by Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, offers…