By Dr. Keith Harper
Opposite to well known belief, turn-of-the-century Southern Baptists had an identifiable social ethic that pressured them to minister to society's dispossessed. even if Southern Baptists by no means deviated from their fundamental target of saving souls, they believed biblical stewardship had broader implications than wealth administration. Baptists eagerly engaged in social ministries for which they discovered scriptural mandates, particularly orphanages. the most important to enlisting help for such extended social ministries used to be missions. Baptist leaders synthesized evangelical situation with social compassion and confident church contributors that the Bible sanctioned social ministries and that such endeavors have been valuable of aid. The influence was once twofold: Baptists equipped associations to alleviate the needy, and so they used those associations to propagate the Gospel and train Baptist doctrine.
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If Baptists were seizing opportunities to expand education, they never forgot that their primary goal was evangelism. By 1890, they already had a leadership corps dedicated to Southern Baptist causes, especially to education and missions. Many of these leaders provide excellent examples of the movement culture's most salient features, namely, cooperation and volunteerism. For example, in 1907 E. Y. Mullins, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, wrote of Page 21 a "crisis" in Home Missions.
McGlothlin believed that once converted, individuals would adopt a set of Christian ethical principles. These principles would lead to brotherly love and instill a sense of reciprocal obligations one for another. Ostensibly, the result would be less crime and greater social stability. Mountain feuding is a good example of how Christianity was supposed to produce order and social stability. C. S. Gardner agreed with McGlothlin that social chaos was a problem, particularly in the mountains. "28 A.
First, there was a sense of individual self-worth and self-respect. Southern farmers had suffered greatly from the humiliation of crop lien, a vicious feature of post-Civil War southern agriculture that locked its victims into a debt-credit cycle from which few escaped. In the late 1880s and 1890s, midwestern and southwestern farmers were scarcely better off than the debt-ridden southern farmers. 4 Goodwyn argues that Populism was an agricultural reaction to the unfairness, exploitation, and degradation of both the crop lien and the American economic system.
