Baptists of the Roaring River District Baptist Association gather this day at Reddie’s River Church in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Like most other Primitive Baptist associational gatherings during the war, they decline to focus on the war. Primitive Baptists of the South, more than Southern Baptists, tend to maintain their heritage of strict separation of…
Two thirty-nine year old Baptist associations in Georgia meet today and reflect upon the condition of the Confederate States of America in the South’s war for the preservation of African slavery. One body is a Primitive Baptist association, and the other is Southern Baptist. Both associations were founded at a time when many Baptists of…
Baptist associations North and South meet throughout the month of September. One of these Baptist groups is the Laughery Baptist Association of Indiana, bordering the Ohio River. On behalf of the Laughery Assocation, Elder E. P. Bond, perhaps at the time best known among Indiana Baptists for his advocacy of education for women, is selected…