Well into the second year of war, many Baptist churches of the Confederacy have fallen upon dire times. Today, the second oldest Baptist church in the state of Tennessee faces the realities of a war-time economy. On April 20, 1794–two years before Tennessee became the sixteenth state of the United States–Baptists from the Three Forks…
James M. Pendleton is a well-known Baptist preacher and newspaper editor (assistant editor of the Tennessee Baptist) in Tennessee and among many other rural Baptists in portions of the South. He is also the author of an influential book, An Old Landmark Re-Set (Old Landmarks Revisited), published in 1856 and the figurehead volume advocating Landmarkism…
In the state where the Confederacy was born, the South Carolina Baptist Convention is meeting in annual session in Greenville. The war permeates the proceedings. Several Southern Baptist ministers are presently imprisoned in Union-occupied Nashville, Tennessee for refusing to take an oath of allegiance to the United States. South Carolina delegates convey their support for…