Today the Columbus Baptist Association of Georgia assembles at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Talbot County for the first day of a three-day meeting. The war permeates the sessions and formal discussions that take place throughout the associational meeting. Missions and Sunday Schools are suffering, delegates note, while some pulpits are no longer regularly…
The war depletes many Southern Baptist churches of their menfolk. Church officers are not exempt from the male exodus, as exemplified by Jacob Eliot of Corsicana, Texas. Born in New York in 1803 and raised in Kentucky, at the age of 46 Eliot moved to Navarro County, Texas, with his wife, children, and grandchildren. Purchasing…
This week, the Union Soldiers’ Aid Society of Penacook, New Hampshire is formed in the town’s Baptist Church. According to the Preamble of the organization’s Constitution: Believing that it is our duty to do all in our power for the comfort of the soldiers, who are periling their lives in defense of our Government, we…