Southern Baptists, like other southerners, miss many northern goods because of war-related trade sanctions. Yet in one respect, Baptists of the South voice gladness that a particular northern industry has been marginalized: as of this week, Bible publication is no longer dependent upon northern printing presses. The Tennessee Baptist thus reports: The first set of…
Wayne County, Kentucky, is deeply conflicted. Economically tied to the North and having familial connections with the South, Kentucky families and neighbors in this land in which slavery is much less central than in the Deep South are divided, with emotions running high. The rapid unraveling of harmony is now on intense display in Wayne…
Charles Henry Rowe (born 1834) of Gloucester, Maine, having graduated from Newton Theological Institution earlier this year, is today ordained into the Baptist ministry. Upon his ordination, he assumes his first pastorate at Holyoke Baptist Church in Holyoke, Massachusetts. One year later, he returns to his home state, accepting a call to pastor the First…