A news item in the Baltimore Exchange discusses an alleged conversation that Richard Fuller (illustration), the well-known Baptist preacher who at the time is pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore, had with U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, a former Baptist. Fuller, a pro-slavery advocate, is also president of the slave-centric Southern Baptist Convention. His…
On this Sunday, ten days have passed since the commencement of the war between North and South. Mary Beckley Bristow, an active member of Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky (a Calvinist congregation), in the pages of her diary writes of her loyalty to the South: I was at Union yesterday; every person I saw…
Dr. Galusha Anderson (illustration), a graduate of Rochester Theological Seminary (and the first to have earned a doctorate from Rochester), is the pastor of Second Baptist Church of St. Louis, Missouri. He has been pastor of the congregation for three turbulent years. During this time, two infant sons and his wife died, leaving Anderson with…