The American Baptist Missionary Union continues meeting today in Brooklyn, New York. The war between the North and South weighs upon the minds of all. Believing that the conflict would be resolved if southern leaders could understand the good intentions of the North, attendees ardently speak against the charges of Southern Baptist leader Richard Fuller…
Patriots in Attleboro, Massachusetts gather at the First Baptist Church (founded in 1817) to prepare themselves spiritually before marching off to war. The volunteer soldiers have been training for weeks on the Baptist Common, in front of the Baptist church between Park and North Washington streets. Today is Sunday. The men, Company I of the…
Rev. Isaac McCoy (1784-1846) was a Baptist minister, Indian missionary, surveyor, and author. “In 1810 McCoy was ordained a Baptist minister and seven years later was sent by the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions in America to the Miami Indians, who were living on the Wabash river, 16 miles above Terre Haute, Indiana. This was…