Southern Baptist newspaper editors in the post-war months find much to criticize about the religious newspapers of the North. This week’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald accuses the “Northern Religious Press” of “Secularity.” Pretending surprise of “the degree in which the religious papers of the North are devoted to politics,” the writer is silent on the…
In these post-war months, the Baptist newspapers of the South that have reopened harbor no shortage of criticism of the North, and in particular, Christians of the North. Today the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald offers an assessment of the “Differences Between Northern and Southern Preachers.” Claiming “numerous and conspicuous” differences, the commentary identifies Northern preachers’…
This week the editor of the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald takes objection to Baptist newspapers in the North criticizing as “slander” an editorial he recently wrote. “The point I made was simply this: that fearful outrages had been perpetrated on the people of the South that were not justified nor warranted by the recognized laws…