Baptists and the American Civil War: August 7, 1863

Today William J. R. Taylor, Corresponding Secretary of the New York-based American Bible Society, writes a reply letter to Dr. Basil Manly, Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board, concerning a request for the purchase of New Testaments for children’s Sunday Schools in the South. In part, the reply letter states: It affords…

Baptists and the American Civil War: February 12, 1861

While the ongoing Confederate States convention is the talk of the Deep South, related issues are also on the mind of Southern Baptists. Baptist newspapers in Tennessee and Georgia this month call attention to a recently released (1860) revised translation of the Epistle of Philemon, published by the American Bible Union, headquartered in New York.…

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