J. Warren Merrill of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a successful businessman and local civic leader. He serves as mayor of Cambridge from 1865-1867. He is also a Baptist, having been baptized in the Baldwin Place Baptist Church in Boston in 1833. Now, his membership resides with the Cambridge Baptist Church. In addition, Merrill is a leader…
A news item in the Baltimore Exchange discusses an alleged conversation that Richard Fuller (illustration), the well-known Baptist preacher who at the time is pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore, had with U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, a former Baptist. Fuller, a pro-slavery advocate, is also president of the slave-centric Southern Baptist Convention. His…
On this Sunday, ten days have passed since the commencement of the war between North and South. Mary Beckley Bristow, an active member of Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky (a Calvinist congregation), in the pages of her diary writes of her loyalty to the South: I was at Union yesterday; every person I saw…