Today’s annual meeting of the Erie Baptist Association of New York echoes many other Northern Baptist associations this fall in terms of expressing support for emancipation of slaves and the war against Southern slavery. One Erie Baptist resolution succintly summarizes the association’s beliefs in terms of war and slavery: Resolved, That we have special occasion…
Gettysburg has a long reach upon the South. Devastating was the battlefield defeat two months ago, while the emotional loss is lived again and again as news of the deaths of soldier sons, husbands and fathers daily afflicts distraught families. Many of the deceased Confederate soldiers from the Battle of Gettysburg were Baptists. In today’s…
An editorial in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index compares “Religion North and South,” turning to the alleged witness of a Union chaplain to prove that Confederate soldiers are more righteous than their northern counterparts. The London Times, in its remarks upon the late judicious address put forth to the christians of the world, by…