The annual meeting of the Georgia Baptist Convention continues in LaGrange. The Baptists present, mostly elites, many of whom are large slaveowners, on this last day of the annual gathering pass a series of “Resolutions on the State of the Country.” Resolved, That the Convention heartily, solemnly, and unanimously re-asserts the sentiments, so far as…
Recent military reversals worry Southern Baptists as much as their fellow countrymen. A commentary in the Baptist press this week offers much-needed assurance and vows defiance. In times of war, victory and defeat follow each other, and rejoicing and sorrow are mingled like light and shade in a picture. A few days since, the Southern…
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…