Each and every day, more Baptist men join the ranks of the Union and Confederate armies. Typically young men, they go to war for their respective countries for a number of reasons, including (respectfully) abolitionist and pro-slavery views, love for country, to be with comrades, a search for adventure, and an opportunity (for poor folk)…
Francis Wayland (1796-1865), venerable Northern Baptist minister, educator and author, is in the twilight of his career. Having served as the president of Brown University (1827-1855) and pastor of the First Baptist Church in America, Providence, Rhode Island (1857-1858), Brown now devotes his time to writing. Having long ago published his anti-slavery views in a…
Southern Baptist minister J. D. Hufham, editor of the Biblical Recorder of North Carolina, addresses his view of the current situation in the Confederacy as winter turns into spring and the second anniversary of the war nears. Winter is gone, and Spring is here. We feel it in the atmosphere and see it in the…