The North Carolina Baptist Convention assembles at the First Baptist Church of Raleigh and passes a resolution on “the State of the Country.” The resolution is lengthy, offering commentary on the United States, Confederate States and the war, but especially dwelling upon the revivals within the Confederate Army. The close of another Conventional year finds…
A North Carolina Baptist minister this week rallies the faithful to their patriotic duties, via a stirring newspaper commentary. At a public meeting in Albermarle county, Virginia, the county in which President Jefferson lived and died, the people passed these resolutions: 1. To pay all their tax in kind. 2. To take another tenth from…
Samuel Boykin, editor of the Georgia Baptist Christian Index, has on more than one occasion criticized Georgia Baptist pastors for not volunteering as army evangelists and missionaries. His criticism has not gone unchallenged. In this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder, an editorial defends the inaction of most Baptist pastors by associating the problem with…