Baptists formally arrived in Lake County, Indiana in the 1830s. A Baptist Sunday School was established at Cedar Lake in 1839. In the years following Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians have worked together in the task of conducting Sunday School. Today a “few superintendents, teachers and friends of Sunday-schools in Lake County” meet at Crown Point…
Today Confederate General Jubal Early and the Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, having raided several towns in Maryland, approach Fort Stevens just to the northwest of Washington, D.C. Early had hoped to make a surprise invasion of Washington, but had been detained too long in the previous day’s Battle of Monocacy to…
This week Basil Manly Jr., co-editor of the newly-formed Baptist Sunday School Board along with John A. Broadus, from South Carolina sends a letter under a flag of truce to Richard Fuller, pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore. Manly is desperate to obtain New Testaments for use in Sundays Schools in Southern Baptist…