The new year continues to go badly for the Confederacy. Murfressboro, Tennessee is now occupied by federal troops. Meanwhile, Nashville, Tennessee has been occupied by Union forces since February 24. Today, the United States military confiscates the city’s First Baptist Church for use as a hospital. Church pews and other furniture are removed. Soon, other…
Against the backdrop of the recent Emancipation Proclamation and the angst of the ongoing war, Baptists of the North have not abandoned doctrinal concerns, as illustrated by a series of weekly meetings beginning tonight at the South Baptist Church of New York City. A course of important doctrinal sermons is to be delivered at the…
The news of the Emancipation Proclamation has now spread throughout the North, as well as much of the South. Southern whites–including Southern Baptist newspaper editors–largely ignore the news, knowing that Abraham Lincoln‘s words are effectively meaningless as long as the Confederacy exists. Some Southern slaves hear whispers of a freedom announced from far away, hoping…