News of the the Lincoln administration granting permission to the American Baptist Home Mission Society to fill pulpits in abandoned Baptist churches of the South does not sit well with Southern Baptist divines. A caustic and defiant editorial originally published in the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald , reacting to an earlier editorial in the New…
Born in Clarion County, Pennsylvania on September 26, 1832, Joanna P. Moore was raised by Episcopalian and Presbyterian parents. During a revival meeting in 1851, however, she joined a Baptist church. Attending Female Seminary in Illinois earlier this year, she learned of the needs among a colony of freed women and children on Union-controlled Island…
As battles rage on the outskirts of the Confederate capital of Richmond, Henry Martin Tupper, born in 1831 in Monson, Massachusetts, today graduates from American (Northern) Baptists’ Newton Theological Institution (otherwise known as Newton Seminary). The war may have seemed distant to Tupper during his studies at Newton, but within weeks of graduation, on July…