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;…
The annual meeting of the Georgia Baptist Convention continues in LaGrange. The Baptists present, mostly elites, many of whom are large slaveowners, on this last day of the annual gathering pass a series of “Resolutions on the State of the Country.” Resolved, That the Convention heartily, solemnly, and unanimously re-asserts the sentiments, so far as…
For many if not most southerners, the Civil War is an emotional roller coaster. War-time diaries often capture the emotional nature of the war, as is the case with the diary of Mary Beckley Bristow, a member of the Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky. The Battle of Shiloh, fought in the neighboring state of Tennessee…