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Joseph Wilson owned slaves, defended slavery, and also set up a Sunday school for his slaves. Wilson and his wife identified with the Confederacy during the American Civil War; they cared for wounded soldiers at their church, and Wilson briefly served as a chaplain to the Confederate States Army.
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AUGUSTA, January 7th, 1861. TO THE REV. DR. WILSON:-- Rev. and Dear Sir:--Having heard your sermon on yesterday, and believingit to be of such a character that its free circulation may bringabout great good, and a better understanding of the basis upon whichthe relation of Master and Slave, as it exists in the Southern States, rests;and that, to su...
EPHESIANS, VI: 5-9:--"Servants, beobedient to them that are yourmasters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singlenessof your heart, as unto Christ; not with eye-service as men-pleasers,but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;with good-will doing service, as to the Lord and not to men; knowingthat whatsoe...
Our attention isforcibly arrested by the very first wordof this text; "servants." There is no difficulty inascertainingits true meaning, in the original Greek. It distinctlyand unequivocally signifies "slaves," springing as itdoes in this its substantive form from a verbal root, whichmeans to bind. There are several words, conveying differentshades...
I am sure that you will bear with me while I take anotherstep in this great argument, and show how completelythe Bible brings human slavery underneath the sanction ofdivine authority, upon other and stronger grounds. Indeed,my text compels me to take this course--for, if ourdomestic servitude be essentiallydifferent from that to whichthe Apostle's ...
Look, first, at the most instructive silence of Scriptureupon this subject. An obvious feature of the sacred word,whose office, in the hands of the Spirit, is to convince ofsin and conduct to righteousness, is this: it never mentionsa grave offence against God without denouncing it directlyor impliedly: denouncing it, too, in the face of everyhuman...
But look at God's direct and positive utterances inthe premises. I need only pointyou to them, so clearlydo they establish the fact that this part of family orderwas always familiar to the divine mind in its plans of human government. Domestic slavery is twice clearly acknowledgedin the brief law of the Ten Commandments.In the 4th law, with regard ...
But my hearers, if you wish for further conviction, carryyour belief of the essential rightness of slavery to the injunctionsof our text, which the Apostle publishes for itsconservation and perfection. He as much as says, that it isunnecessary to fear that this long-cherished institution willfirst give way before the enemies who press upon it fromw...
Joseph Ruggles Wilson himself, the nature of his career, his own ideas, assumptions, and values. Individual personality develop ment can only be understood within the context of the family it self, and the biography of Joseph Ruggles Wilson is an essential ingredient to a fuller understanding of Woodrow Wilson and the man he became. 245
Feb 22, 2021 · Slavery was endorsed by God, declared the leading light of the Presbyterian Church of the Confederacy, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, in 1861. It was one of many Anglo-Saxon supremacist ideas he...
Joseph R. Wilson (Joseph Ruggles), 1835-1903 Mutual Relation of Masters and Slaves as Taught in the Bible: A Discourse Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Augusta, Georgia, on Sabbath Morning, Jan. 6, 1861.
Wilson, Joseph Ruggles, 1822-1903: Note: Augusta, GA: Steam Press of Chronicle and Sentinel, 1861 : Link: HTML and TEI at UNC: Stable link here: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp31944 : Subject: Slavery in the Bible -- Sermons: Subject: Slavery -- Southern States -- Justification -- Sermons: Subject:
Mutual relation of masters and slaves as taught in the Bible : a discourse preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Augusta, Georgia, on Sabbath morning, Jan. 6, 1861 : Wilson, Joseph R. (Joseph Ruggles), 1835-1903 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
