Today, Iowa’s Cedar Valley Baptist Association assembles at Waterloo. While the war is uppermost in the minds of the delegates, the issue of higher education is also a concern of some individuals present. At the seventh anniversary of the Cedar Valley Baptist Association held at Waterloo, September [26], 1862, H. I. Parker presented the prospects…
This month has been tension-filled in the Northern city of Cincinnati, Ohio. For weeks, the Confederate Army has lurked nearby in northern Kentucky, poking and prodding for a way to effectively attack the Queen City located across the Ohio River. Today, the latest Confederate offensive in the vicinity of Cincinnati takes place about 15 miles…
While the world now knows of U.S. President Abraham’s Lincoln plans to emancipate African slaves in the South as of January 1, Baptist newspapers of the South continue publishing commentaries praising African slavery as God’s will and the hope of the Christian world. Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder prints just such a commentary, a piece…