The Southern Baptist Convention convenes for the second day of their annual meeting, hosted by the Green Street Baptist Church of Augusta, Georgia. The august gentlemen assemble at 9 a.m. and following adoption of the Order of Business, delve into business matters and half an hour in “Devotional Exercises.” The Foreign Mission Board report is…
Today the Senate of the Confederate States Congress convenes in Richmond, the nation’s capital. The session opens with a prayer by Rev. Secley, pastor of the Second Baptist Church. The proceedings that follow include debating a request for additional funds for the Ordnance Department, issues related to Confederate bonds, and consideration of a tax bill.…
Emerging from the annual meeting of the Georgia Baptist Convention in Athens are hints that the war will severely disrupt Southern Baptist life and ministries, and an acknowledgment that Southern Baptists’ mission enterprise is dependent upon the profits of slave labor (illustrated is a common scene in Georgia during the Civil War years). The Committee…