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James P. Boyce

Baptists and the American Civil War: May 22, 1865

With the war over, the faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina, shuttered during most the war, hope to reopen the institution. Success however, is far from assured. Compounding the seminary’s prospects are the reduced fortunes of professor and president James P. Boyce. Wealthy prior the war, during the great conflict…

May 22, 2015 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

Baptists and the American Civil War: January 18, 1864

Southern Baptists’ concern from the children of the war leads to the introduction of a new Sunday School publication this month. “Kind Words” is a child’s “Sunday-school paper” that is published by the recently-formed Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The board’s three officials, Charles J. Elford (board director and printer), Basil Manly,…

January 18, 2014 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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…

June 16, 2013 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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