For white citizens, New Year’s Day in Augusta, Georgia is filled with hope for the coming months. Augusta, a large and important city in the state, is also the birthplace of the Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC had been founded in 1845 in the city’s First Baptist Church, at a south-wide convention called by leading…
Readers of today’s North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder learn of a fast day sermon entitled “The Uses of War” recently preached in Richmond, Virginia, by a “Dr. Moore.” The paper reprints a portion of the sermon as follows: War was a part of the agency by which God disciplines nations. So long as there was…
Seven people join the Mount Pisgah Baptist Church of Choctaw County, Alabama. All are from one family, and their entry into church membership is a microcosm of the reasons underlying the warfare between South and North. The family is the Bloxom family. Three white members join Mount Pisgah today: Albert Bloxom, wife Amanda, and sister…