Today James B. Taylor, influential Virginia Baptist minister who is serving as pastor of Richmond’s Grace Street Baptist Church, opens the Virginia House of Delegates with prayer. A large portion of today’s business relates to the problem of alcohol within the Confederacy. An 1863 bill limits the use of grains for distillation into alcohol, yet…
The legacy of Benjamin Randall, founder of Free Will Baptists, is alive and well in Oneonta, New York. In 1856, the town’s Second Free Will Baptist Church was established when some members of the first Free Will congregation “believing that a more central location would foster the growth of church membership … thought it wise…
Tennessee native William B. Bate (1826-1905) prior to war proved himself as a young man. Following his first job as a clerk on a steamboat, he then served in the United States Army (during the Mexican-American war), started a newspaper, served in the Tennessee House or Representatives, practiced law, served as attorney general for the…