As the year draws to a close and a week following the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing slavery, few white Southern Baptists in state newspapers bother to discuss the advance of freedom in America. Rather, today’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald contains articles about a variety of other items and issues. Temperance is…
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, during the war a member of the Confederate States House of Representatives and an officer in the Confederate Army, is a prominent Southern Baptist. Now, he serves as the president of the Alabama Baptist State Convention and of Baptists’ Howard College. In January 1866 he is ordained to the Baptist ministry.…
The Alabama Baptist State Convention, meeting today in Marion, issues a Report on the State of Religion. With the war over and Alabama occupied by Union troops, a sense of despondency hovers in the background. In the report delegates lament the frequent “absence of correspondence and statistical documents.” Some churches, however, have enjoyed “precious revival…