Today Georgia Gov. Joseph Brown addresses the state’s General Assembly, convened in the capitol of the state capital, Milledgeville. Brown is a Southern Baptist and, by virtue of his political position, the most prominent Baptist of the state. His speech focuses on the war effort, including the need to convert cotton crops into food crops…
Against the backdrop of the recent Emancipation Proclamation and the angst of the ongoing war, Baptists of the North have not abandoned doctrinal concerns, as illustrated by a series of weekly meetings beginning tonight at the South Baptist Church of New York City. A course of important doctrinal sermons is to be delivered at the…
While war is uppermost on the minds of many Baptists in the North, life otherwise carries on as much as possible. Today, the music program of the First Baptist Church of Peoria, Illinois is the subject of a lengthy letter to the editor published in the Peoria Morning Mail, and written by an unidentified “lady.”…