White Baptist commitment to the Confederacy is similar to that of the South’s other Christian denominations: many if not most embrace (in some fashion or another) the Confederacy as God’s Kingdom on earth, while few publicly disagree with the belief that African slavery is God’s will for the black race. Calvinism, a long-held Christian belief…
Samuel Boykin, editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, today plumbs the depths of God’s Providence and the Confederacy. The prosperity of God’s spiritual Kingdom is the moving cause of all His dealings with the nations of the earth. And when His people retrograde in piety; when they neglect Christian duty; when they disregard His statutes;…
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…