James R. Graves, editor of the Tennessee Baptist and a long-time lightning rod in Baptist life, frequently publishes letters from readers who are appreciative of him. Graves’ critics fault him for his northern roots and Landmark ecclesiology. B. F. Burroughs, a Texas Baptist, offers a strong defense of Graves, as well as commentary regarding the…
Eight months into the war, as the year draws to a close, southerners are concerned about the economic prospects of the Confederacy, now isolated from the manufacturing muscle of the North. Slavery remains the economic underpinning of the South, but the region’s reliance on cotton, enabled by slave labor, is now suffering from an inability…
Readers of today’s North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder learn of a fast day sermon entitled “The Uses of War” recently preached in Richmond, Virginia, by a “Dr. Moore.” The paper reprints a portion of the sermon as follows: War was a part of the agency by which God disciplines nations. So long as there was…