The American Baptist Missionary Union meets today at the First Baptist Church of Providence, Rhode Island, America’s first Baptist church. Among the reports and subjects discussed are the Union’s far-ranging mission work and funding issues. The war has created competition for churches’ financial resources. Dependent upon voluntary contributions from individuals and congregations, the Society searches…
George M. Slaysman, pastor of First Baptist York, Pennsylvania, and his congregation earlier in the year allowed the Duquesne Grays Pennsylvania regiment to use church buildings as barracks as the soldiers trained in preparation for the battlefield. This month, as their time for deployment draws nigh, the soldiers move to newly-constructed barracks nearby. Upon completion…
The shots of the American Civil War are heard around the world … on the mission field. Today C. Bennett, the Director of the Publications Department of the American Tract Society issues his annual report regarding books and tracts published on foreign mission fields: BOOKS AND TRACTS ISSUED TO THE DIFFERENT STATIONS AS FOLLOWS: —…