In these post-war months, the Baptist newspapers of the South that have reopened harbor no shortage of criticism of the North, and in particular, Christians of the North. Today the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald offers an assessment of the “Differences Between Northern and Southern Preachers.” Claiming “numerous and conspicuous” differences, the commentary identifies Northern preachers’…
Today the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, located in Greenville, South Carolina and Southern Baptists’ sole seminary, reopens following the war. The reopening consists of seven students and the returning founding faculty of four — James Petigru Boyce, John A. Broadus, Basil Manly Jr. and William Williams. The four are uncertain if they can successfully restart…
The Northern-based American Bible Union meets in New York. Founder and president, Thomas Armitage, is a Baptist minister. In addition to providing Bibles in non-English languages, the Union is now busy supplying Bibles to freedmen, many of whom are finally learning to read, following the post-war fall of decades of Southern laws disallowing slaves to…