As it has done on a number of occasions in recent months, the South Carolina Confederate Baptist, edited by Jacob M. C. Breaker, again blasts Christians of the Confederacy, including many Baptists, who insist on further entwining church and state in the already de facto Christian Confederate States of America. Church state union is a…
Today Isaac E. Howd, pastor of the Whitehall Baptist Church of New York, delivers a war-themed discourse. “God in Providence” is a sermon delivered “in memory of Sergeant L.S. Gillett, Co. C, 123d Regt., N.Y.V.” L.S. Sergeant is Leonard S., who was killed earlier this month in the Battle of Chancellorsville. Gillett is one of…
Today, Abel Bingham, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan, writes to his son, Judson, who is serving as a chaplain to the 20th Massachusetts. The elder Bingham, a long-time anti-slavery advocate, notes that he is pleased with President Abraham Lincoln‘s recent Emancipation Proclamation. He is a staunch supporter of the United…