The shots of the American Civil War are heard around the world … on the mission field. Today C. Bennett, the Director of the Publications Department of the American Tract Society issues his annual report regarding books and tracts published on foreign mission fields: BOOKS AND TRACTS ISSUED TO THE DIFFERENT STATIONS AS FOLLOWS: —…
Today Daniel Hubbard Willis, Jr. (born 1839) enlists in the Confederate Army at Camp Moore, Louisiana, as a Private in the 5th Company Battalion, Washington Artillery of Louisiana. In March 1864, he fights in Raxdale’s Company E of the 16th Louisiana Regiment, and is promoted to 2nd Sergeant on March 5, 1865, as the war…
Today at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Tyler, Texas, church members try to untangle the truth regarding charges brought against one of their own. The charges are explosive: Bro. Isaac Taylor, the accused, is charged with lying, treason, and immorality. Representing an unusual case for a Baptist church conference meeting (because of Baptists’ historic…