The Seventh-Day Baptist Central Association, meeting this month at the First Sabbath Day Baptist Church of Verona, New York, passes a resolution on slavery that echoes a resolution authored by the late Baptist leader John Leland and embraced by Virginia Baptists in 1789. The Central Association declares: Resolved, That the members of this Association regard…
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…
Confederate soldier Rev. Lucratus Hodges “Cratus” Foster, born in Cass County, Texas in 1842, is a soldier in the 9th Texas Cavalry. Having enlisted on February 14, 1862, the Baptist layman bears the physical and mental scars of war. His left hand is now mangled and essentially useless, and he has served time as a…