This month the First Colored Baptist Church of East St. Louis is established on Carr Island in the Mississippi River, straddling the line between Missouri and Illinois. The church is set apart from the city, reflecting the distance that yet remains among whites and blacks in much of the North. Carr Island is a local…
Convened at the Barnwell Baptist Church in South Carolina’s Barnwell District (County), Baptist delegates of the Savannah River Baptist Association voice both weariness and resolute hope concerning the war. Another year has passed and we find ourselves still afflicted by the scourge of war. So far as human observation is concerned, the plot of this…
This month two prominent Michigan Baptists find themselves without a job. Dr. James A. B. (1810-1888) and Mrs. Lucinda Hinesburg Stone (1814-1900), having led the American Baptist affiliated Kalamazoo College through two decades of growth, are forced to step down. The crisis of the Civil war only partially explains the departure of the husband and…