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…
Support of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation from Northern Baptists continues unabated. Today, the New York Baptist Convention unanimously approves a resolution in support of the Lincoln administration. Avoiding Christian nationalistic rhetoric, the statement voices harsh condemnation of the slave-based Confederacy and takes for granted that God wills freedom for all persons. Whereas…
This month the Baptist Convention of Massachusetts joins the chorus of Northern Baptist organizations praising U.S. President Abraham Lincoln for issuing the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, while seeking God’s favor on behalf of the United States in the war with the Southern Confederacy. Resolved, That, in the present terrible national crisis in which we are involved…