Baptists in the North continue to advance, despite the war. This month, the First Baptist Church of St. Paul, Minnesota opens its new Wacouta Street facility. The second church building constructed by the Baptists of St. Paul, the congregation at this time is 13 years old. The still-young St. Paul congregation reflects the geographical growth…
The Civil War era is marked by a number of religious subplots that involve Baptists. One such narrative is the birth and early years of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. In the early 1820s, a Vermont Baptist minister, William Miller, became convinced that Postmillennialism (the prevailing Christian view, in the Western world, of the second coming…
Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reprints an article from the Richmond Dispatch that speaks to the spiritual needs of Confederate soldiers. Our soldiers are, for the most part, reading men. From childhood they have been accustomed to read papers, magazines, and books. Far from home, on the tented field, with so many leisure hours in…