Francis Wayland (1796-1865), venerable Northern Baptist minister, educator and author, is in the twilight of his career. Having served as the president of Brown University (1827-1855) and pastor of the First Baptist Church in America, Providence, Rhode Island (1857-1858), Brown now devotes his time to writing. Having long ago published his anti-slavery views in a…
Southern Baptist minister J. D. Hufham, editor of the Biblical Recorder of North Carolina, addresses his view of the current situation in the Confederacy as winter turns into spring and the second anniversary of the war nears. Winter is gone, and Spring is here. We feel it in the atmosphere and see it in the…
In Culpeper County, Virginia, site of 18th century Baptist struggles for religious liberty against the Anglican state church, a cavalry battle erupts today as U.S. Brig. Gen. William W. Averell leads 2100 mounted troops across the Rappahannock River to attack Confederate cavalry. Conf. Brig. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee counter-attacks with 800 mounted men, not enough to…