In the face of a bloody Civil War without visible end, Americans and Confederates at large are consumed with thoughts of Providence. From the earliest days of colonization, America has been a nation steeped in providential thought and language. The first Europeans to set foot in the new world were convinced that God’s hand was…
While the world now knows of U.S. President Abraham’s Lincoln plans to emancipate African slaves in the South as of January 1, Baptist newspapers of the South continue publishing commentaries praising African slavery as God’s will and the hope of the Christian world. Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder prints just such a commentary, a piece…
At a time when the Confederacy’s fortunes seem to be on the upswing, this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder publishes a commentary on “Providence and this War.” You launch a loose plank on the swollen river, and from the bank watch patiently its course, as it drifts along–but you cannot guide it. It is…