As the magnitude of the Confederate losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg sink into the public consciousness of the South, Christian Index editor and Southern Baptist journalist Samuel Boykin offers his perspective on the crisis at hand, emphatically declaring the inevitable triumph of Southern white supremacy. [The Crisis of our National Affairs] Is undoubtedly upon us,…
As Confederate and Union forces continue to jockey for position north of Richmond, the Baptist General Association of Virginia convenes for a third day. The committee appointed to recommend best methods of religious instruction for enslaved and free Africans offers its report, voiced by W. F. Broaddus. The committee refer to the manifest improvement which…
Throughout the Confederacy, Baptist associational gatherings taking place in recent months have routinely taken up collections for use in ministering to soldiers through Bible and literature distribution or other missionary work in the camps. Delegates at such meetings are exclusively men, yet leading lights in Southern Baptist life also seek to appropriate women, who have…