Adoniram Judson Gordon, born in New Hampton, New Hampshire, on April 19, 1836, began life with the name a famous missionary — Adoniram Judson — and as the son of John Calvin Gordon, named after the Reformation theologian. Entering Baptists’ Brown University at the age of twenty, the abolitionist movement soon impressed him, although he…
Today the African Baptist Church of Darien, Georgia, the oldest black church in the county, is destroyed by the Union 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Colored Regiment and the 2nd South Carolina Volunteers. Most of the town, in fact, is looted and destroyed by the Union troops, under the orders of the 2nd’s commander, Colonel James Montgomery.…
Readers of Southern Baptist newspapers are, by now, fed a steady diet of news regarding the religious condition of the Confederate army, and this week is no exception, as an article in today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder testifies. The letters, which we have been publishing for weeks, will give our readers some notion of…