The Seventh-Day Baptist Central Association, meeting this month at the First Sabbath Day Baptist Church of Verona, New York, passes a resolution on slavery that echoes a resolution authored by the late Baptist leader John Leland and embraced by Virginia Baptists in 1789. The Central Association declares: Resolved, That the members of this Association regard…
How are Southern Baptist pastors to support the institution of African slavery? A pastor in Washington, Georgia models the manner in which whites are to minister to slaves, according to a correspondent writing for a Virginia-based Baptist newspaper. A correspondent of the Religious Herald writing from Washington, Ga., gives the following account of the labors…
Confederate soldier Rev. Lucratus Hodges “Cratus” Foster, born in Cass County, Texas in 1842, is a soldier in the 9th Texas Cavalry. Having enlisted on February 14, 1862, the Baptist layman bears the physical and mental scars of war. His left hand is now mangled and essentially useless, and he has served time as a…