The Long Run Baptist Association of Kentucky meets today. The war is upon the minds of the Baptists gathered. Kentucky Baptist historian John H. Spencer, born in 1826 and now at the prime of his preaching career, recalls the meeting: On the 6th of that month [September, 1861] I went to the meeting of Long…
Today’s Richmond Times Dispatch reports: The Rev. A. T. Spaulding, paster of the Berean Baptist Church, 24th Ward, Philadelphia, has resigned for the purpose, it is said, of going to the South. Two days hence, Samuel Richards records in his diary: We hear of Brantley and Spaulding Baptist ministers from Philadelphia returning to their Southern…
On the northern home front, a strange accident takes the life of one of the most prominent men of the state of Massachusetts. George Nixon Briggs (born 1796), lawyer, former U.S. Whig Congressmen (1831-1843) and seven-term governor of Massachusetts (1844-1851), reaches for an overcoat in the closet of his home in Pittsfield. In so doing,…