In Richmond this day, the white ministers of the city meet at the First Baptist Church to discuss arrangements for opening with prayer the daily sessions of the Virginia legislature: “The Clergy of Richmond having been, by resolution of the House of Delegates, invited, “by arrangement and concert among themselves, to open the daily sessions…
While war yet wages strong and bloody, Baptists of the North have taken time this year to celebrate significant milestones. In the latest of many jubilee celebrations in American (Northern) Baptist life this year, the First Baptist Church of Canton, Massachusetts observes the congregation’s 50th anniversary. Previously this year, the American Tract Society, the Northern…
In the face of a grinding, drawn-out war in which the North by now has the decided upper hand, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, having been a Baptist in his youth, today composes a letter to three prominent northern Baptists – George B. Ide, James R. Doolittle, and A. Hubbell – offering further reflection on the…