Sarah Christie Stevens, 18 years of age, is a student at Wisconsin Female College in Fox Lake. She has a drive “to do great good in the world,” and her father and soldier brothers are financing (the latter from their United States Army pay) her education in the belief that she will fulfill her wishes.…
Baptists in the North continue to advance, despite the war. This month, the First Baptist Church of St. Paul, Minnesota opens its new Wacouta Street facility. The second church building constructed by the Baptists of St. Paul, the congregation at this time is 13 years old. The still-young St. Paul congregation reflects the geographical growth…
By the dawn of the Civil War, the schooling of America’s children is no longer in the strong grip of Protestant Christians. Following the formation of the United States of America and the enactment of church state separation, as well as Thomas Jefferson’s plea for a common education system for all, Protestant Christians nonetheless maintained…