Women in Baptist life of the South — reflecting southern life at large — play a support role to the male gender. Whereas Baptist women preachers and deaconneses in the mid-18th century were not uncommon in some southern colonies, such roles for females have long since been abandoned in Baptist life. In the present war,…
This week’s Tennessee Baptist newspaper seeks assistance from Baptist women and merchants in the publishing of Bibles for Confederate soldiers. We do not believe in giving up to misfortune, or to cowering before difficulties, though they seem insurmountable. When it seemed impossible to print the Word of God in the South for our soldiers and…
Not one to mince words or skirt around issues, Samuel Boykin of Macon, Georgia – editor of Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index and member of the First Baptist Church of Christ in Macon – sums up, for his readers, the reason why the South is at war, and explains that the South will triumph because African…