Southern Baptists are ramping up production of tracts for Confederate soldiers through the Baptist Colportage Board in Richmond, Virginia. From today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch: A friend informs us that the Rev. M. D. Hoge, D. D., of this city, is now preparing a tract for general distribution among the Confederate forces, embodying just such advice…
Ebenezer W. Warren, pastor of First Baptist Church of Macon, Georgia, months ago preached that African slavery is unquestionably biblical. Many other Southern Baptist pastors have also preached this central message of the South from their pulpits. Yet for an institution ordained by and blessed of God, the war has already revealed that enslaved Africans…
On this Sunday morning, many Baptists North and South hear sermons that mention, some as part of the main message and others in passing, the danger to freedom in America. While southern Baptist preachers addressing the topic proclaim freedom for white people, contrasted with divinely-sanctioned slavery for black people, northern Baptist preachers focus on freedom…