Less than two weeks before United States President Abraham Lincoln is scheduled to legally free African slaves within the Southern states rebelling against the U.S., a commentary in North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder reminds Baptists that slaveowners, not abolitionists, are “the only true friends” of the black race. This war has unmasked the hypocrisy and…
Baptist higher education carries on in the North, against the backdrop of war. Today, as the year draws toward a close, Franklin College president Silas Bailey, in the face of an illness, resigns as president of the Indiana Baptist school. Bailey has been a leader of Indiana Baptists, served in pastoral roles and spoken vocally…
Northern Baptists by the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, have in previous weeks and months enthusiastically embraced U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s plan to emancipate African slaves. Today, the President delivers his annual State of the Union address, in which he offers a few references to God’s blessings and speaks extensively to the…