Baptists and the American Civil War: February 22, 1861
While the South fulminates over Abraham Lincoln’s impending inauguration, some Southern Baptists are more concerned with internal religious matters, such as the issue of what constitutes true faith. From the pen of E. B. Tragce of Georgia this week: “The Christian professor [believer] has always oscillated between orthodoxy with the few, and latitudinarianism with the…