As the war rages on in the contested state of Tennessee, death, even in the less contentious winter months, is now ever present in the city of Nashville. Today’s Tennessee Baptist speaks of Confederate anxiety, mourning and sacrifice as Union forces draw ever closer to the city: There is still a large number of soldiers…
Oberlin College, a Christian abolitionist college in Ohio, is in an uproar. A young African American student is accused of poisoning two white female students who were boarding in the same house as the accused. Edmonia Lewis was born about 1844 in either New York, New Jersey or Ohio (the various accounts of her birth…
An anonymous Baptist from Savannah, Georgia, pens a letter today that, when it is published in Baptist newspapers in the coming weeks, will shock and dismay many home front Southern Baptists. Something evil, in short, pervades the Southern Zion. An eminent divine of this city, just returned from Manassas, represents that place as wholly given…