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Baptists and the American Civil War: June 19, 1863

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 19, 1863

A correspondent from the Richmond Daily Dispatch offers personal observations of Baptist life in South Carolina: Since my last I have been rambling a little more in the Palmetto State, and have spent a few days in Georgia, well deserving to be called the Empire State of the South. I was delighted with Anderson and Greenville, in the upper part of South Carolina. They are truly towns of groves and flowers. The latter specially, commanding a view of the distant mountains, and with a river dashing over its rocky bed across the … Read entire article »

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Baptists and the American Civil War: June 18, 1863

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 18, 1863

The Seventh-Day Baptist Central Association, meeting this month at the First Sabbath Day Baptist Church of Verona, New York, passes a resolution on slavery that echoes a resolution authored by the late Baptist leader John Leland and embraced by Virginia Baptists in 1789. The Central Association declares: Resolved, That the members of this Association regard the system of American Slavery as a violation of the domestic rights of human nature, and … Read entire article »

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 17, 1863

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 17, 1863

How are Southern Baptist pastors to support the institution of African slavery? A pastor in Washington, Georgia models the manner in which whites are to minister to slaves, according to a correspondent writing for a Virginia-based Baptist newspaper. A correspondent of the Religious Herald writing from Washington, Ga., gives the following account of the labors of Elder H. A. Tupper, pastor of the church in that place. We could wish that … Read entire article »

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 16, 1863

Baptists and the American Civil War: June 16, 1863

This week Basil Manly Jr., co-editor of the newly-formed Baptist Sunday School Board along with John A. Broadus, from South Carolina sends a letter under a flag of truce to Richard Fuller, pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore. Manly is desperate to obtain New Testaments for use in Sundays Schools in Southern Baptist congregations, yet Bibles are hard to come by in the Confederacy, due to the Union occupation … Read entire article »