Illinoisan John McBride, soldier in Company D, Fifty-First Illinois, is stationed near Corinth, Mississippi, now occupied by Union forces. Today McBride writes a letter to his mother, vividly describing life in the army and making passing reference to the regimental chaplain, Baptist minister Lewis Raymond of Chicago. Raymond tendered his ministerial services near the beginning…
Washington, D.C.’s E Street Baptist Church, the city’s leading Baptist congregation, is in turmoil. In the face of an impending split, the pastor recently resigned, and mere days earlier a significant numbers of members met to begin the formation of a new congregation (soon to be known as Calvary Baptist Church). The cause of the…
Today’s New York Times reports of a unique church “fair” the city’s Sixteenth Street Baptist congregation is planning: The ladies of this [Sixteenth Street Baptist] Church have completed their arrangements for a fair for the benefit of the Church treasury. Space will admit of but limited description; yet three objects of design, so original as…