The North Carolina Baptist State Convention, assembled in the fall of 1861, requested that “Baptist churches within its bounds to observe as a day of fasting and prayer the Sunday preceding its next meeting.” That “next meeting” will take place in Wake Forest on the 29th of this month, with the “day of fasting and…
Meeting at Pierce’s Creek Baptist Church, the work of the Mississippi Baptist Association (of the state of Mississippi) has fallen on hard times due to the war. Only fourteen of 33 churches send representatives, and the national conflict envelopes the meeting. At a time when death and the afterlife are on the minds of Baptists…
Georgia Baptists’ Flint River Baptist Association meets today at Liberty Hall Church in Henry County. Delegates listen to a sermon from 2 Corinthians 4:4 on “The Glorious Gospel of Christ,” after which they get down to business. Following the appointment of committees, the first motion raised is offered by army missionary “Brother Van Hoose” who…