Following a string of prior Northern Baptist resolutions supporting U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s recent Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Ohio Baptists, assembled at their annual state convention this month, offer their own resolution. “Whereas the powers that be are ordained of God, and he that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God,” and is threatened with…
Baptists of the North continue celebrating U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s decision to emancipate African slaves. The Philadelphia Baptist Association — the oldest Baptist association in America, founded in 1707 — joins in a stream of praises for the president’s actions by writing a letter to the Lincoln administration. Quoting scripture, evidencing patriotism, and claiming the…
Yesterday’s announcement of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation by United States President Abraham Lincoln cheers many Baptists of the North, and re-energizes Northern Baptist commitment to the Union cause of freedom for all. Among today’s new soldier enlistments is that of eighteen year-old George W. Rogers of New York. Rogers is a Primitive Baptist, the same…