On this Sabbath day, Baptists South and North discuss slavery. Sam Richards, a member of Atlanta’s Second Baptist Church, writes of today’s church service and of “hateful” northern abolitionists. Dr. B. preached this morning the funeral sermon for Capt Davis from the text, “He being dead, yet speaketh.” It is sad to think how noble…
Murfressboro, Tennesee, safely in Union hands, has become a magnet for escaped slaves, Confederate deserters and poor white families displaced from their rural homes. In ever greater numbers, the refugees set up camp in and around the city. Many of the poor white refugees take up residence in the yard of the city’s Baptist church,…
The war depletes many Southern Baptist churches of their menfolk. Church officers are not exempt from the male exodus, as exemplified by Jacob Eliot of Corsicana, Texas. Born in New York in 1803 and raised in Kentucky, at the age of 46 Eliot moved to Navarro County, Texas, with his wife, children, and grandchildren. Purchasing…