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…
Adoniram Judson Gordon, born in New Hampton, New Hampshire, on April 19, 1836, began life with the name a famous missionary — Adoniram Judson — and as the son of John Calvin Gordon, named after the Reformation theologian. Entering Baptists’ Brown University at the age of twenty, the abolitionist movement soon impressed him, although he…
Trickery is ever afoot in the border states as Confederate and Union partisans vie for control of disputed territory. One of many Baptist families caught up in the conflict on a local level is the Smith family. Obediah, a native Kentuckian, is a Baptist pastor of the Missionary Baptist persuasion. A pioneering family of Missouri,…