Kentucky, an officially neutral state to this point, moves toward the Union as newly-elected legislators take office today. The elected officials strong Union sympathies match the sentiments of a majority of Kentuckians. Not all the state’s residents, however, are pleased with the new legislature. Mary Beckley Bristow, a member of the Sardis Baptist Church in…
The Civil War disrupts educational institutions in Southern Baptist life. As the new school year approaches, Baptist colleges face severe shortages of students, many of whom are now enrolled in the Confederate Army. Yet the educational crisis is present beyond Baptist life. Throughout the South, public and private schools have witnessed an exodus of teachers…
In the pages of the Tennessee Baptist, Baptist pastor A. C. Dayton offers a parable of a “patriotic, self-sacrificing Tennessee plantation mistress” (who were actually relatively few in Baptist congregations) and applies the story to churched women: We overheard a conversation some few weeks since, which threw light upon the character of our fair countrywomen.…