Readers of this week’s North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder are treated to an essay entitled, “Who Will Stand in the Gap”?, which in part declares: In a time of abounding iniquity, God once said to his ancient people, after preferring sundry heavy charges against them, “As they gather silver into the midst of the furnace…
Not all young Southern Baptist men march off to war. Twenty-six year old John Lemuel Carroll of North Carolina, baptized as a Baptist at the age of nine, is a licensed and ordained minister and a student at the University of North Carolina. Rather than join the army, as have most of his fellow students,…
Today, Samuel N. Yeoman–merchant, railroad builder, and Baptist layman–begins recruiting soldiers in his home state of Ohio. As excerpted from a short biographical sketch of this enterprising Northern Baptist layman: In thirty days he recruited two full companies (C and K), and assisted to recruit two more companies, which were assigned to the 114th Regiment.…