Archibald Harrison Holland of Georgia, who turned 17 three weeks ago, today attends an enlistment rally for the Confederate Army—a turning point for him and a juncture of anguish for his mother who refuses to let her oldest son go gently into the war environs. “He became so enthused on this occasion that he immediately…
First Baptist Church, Hillsborough, NC This month a new Baptist church is formed on Sand Mountain in Jackson County in north Alabama. The former Sand Mountain mission, an “arm” of nearby Friendship Baptist Church, formally becomes a church. Taking the name of Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church of Christ, the new church is constituted with…
This month Augustus Hopkins Strong (3 August 1836 – 29 November 1921) is ordained as the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Fresh from earning his doctorate in theology, Strong begins a ministerial journey that will lead him to a place of national prominence and esteem in Baptist life as the foremost…