Pride in the Confederacy among white Southerners is evident in today’s South Carolina Confederate Baptist newspaper. When the second temple of Jerusalem was erected, the contrast of its limited dimensions with the amplitude and splendor of the first, affected the old men, who remembered it, and they wept. Intent on the material structure, they thought…
The Southern Baptist news beat goes on today in the form of editorials and commentary in the Georgia Baptist Christian Index that are intended to bolster the spirits of the Confederate faithful. One editorial extols the unparalleled nature of the revivals in the Confederate Army. Never before have their been such meetings, such sermons and…
Christian editors and writers in the slave-based Confederacy, a nation whose constitution invokes “the favor and guidance of Almighty God,” continue their quest to identity the sins of the nation. In this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index, in the agonizing wake of the losses at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, an editorial argues that the leaders of…