An editorial in this week’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald posits that if everyone in the Confederate States would simply believe the biblical gospel, then Southern troubles would “vanish into air.” Lamenting the lack of gospel belief in the North, the writer makes no bones about the true gospel being that of racial purity–white supremacy and…
Among Southern Baptists, the lament over the lack of Baptist chaplains in the Confederate Army continues unabated. Today the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald chimes in. Attention has been called, several times of late, to the fact that a smaller proportion of the chaplains now in service belong to the Baptist than to other denominations. It…
Who caused the war? A brief piece in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder firmly pins the blame on Northern abolitionists. It has been common, in some parts of the Confederacy, for the members of one political party to charge their opponents with having caused this war. A new aspirant for the honor is…