As the year draws to a close and a week following the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing slavery, few white Southern Baptists in state newspapers bother to discuss the advance of freedom in America. Rather, today’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald contains articles about a variety of other items and issues. Temperance is…
The white citizens of Virginia are busy trying to re-order state, economy and industry. Today, following an opening prayer by Richmond Baptist minister Rev. Jeremiah Jeter, the Virginia legislature in session reviews bills pertaining to the extension of debts, the repairing and resumption of railroads, the restoration of banks, and the re-stabilizing of various public…
Today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch reports on the city’s orphans, of which Baptists have a particular interest: The orphan asylums of Richmond, both Protestant and Catholic, are stated to be in state of almost perfect destitution, with a very limited supply of either fuel, food or clothes. This is doubtless true, and the sufferings of the…