Eighteen months into the war, Southern Baptist mission work is in the midst of a major transition. Foreign mission efforts have ground almost to a halt, due to lack of funding of and communication with the missionaries. Domestic missions, often focused on efforts to evangelize Indians, have severely declined due to the disruptions of war…
The American Baptist Missionary Union meets today at the First Baptist Church of Providence, Rhode Island, America’s first Baptist church. Among the reports and subjects discussed are the Union’s far-ranging mission work and funding issues. The war has created competition for churches’ financial resources. Dependent upon voluntary contributions from individuals and congregations, the Society searches…
If the war were to last for years, what should Baptists of the South do? An editorial in this week’s Georgia Baptist’s Christian Index offers an answer: This war may last and probably will last during Mr. Lincoln’s administration; and, in the meantime, Sabbath schools must be maintained that our children may be taught the…