Today, Abel Bingham, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan, writes to his son, Judson, who is serving as a chaplain to the 20th Massachusetts. The elder Bingham, a long-time anti-slavery advocate, notes that he is pleased with President Abraham Lincoln‘s recent Emancipation Proclamation. He is a staunch supporter of the United…
Isaac Taylor Tichenor, Baptist minister, educator and orator, is arguably the most influential Baptist minister in Alabama. Prior to the war, and following a series of other pastorates in the South, Tichenor moved to Alabama to pastor the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, already emerging as a leading congregation in the South. He also took…
Throughout the Confederacy, Baptist associational gatherings taking place in recent months have routinely taken up collections for use in ministering to soldiers through Bible and literature distribution or other missionary work in the camps. Delegates at such meetings are exclusively men, yet leading lights in Southern Baptist life also seek to appropriate women, who have…