New York City’s governing body meets today. Appearing before city officials is a member of the First Baptist Church, who today advocates for the placement of gas lamps in front of the church building. Petition from Board of Aldermen, of the First Baptist Church, in Broome-street, near the Bowery, to have two lamps placed in…
Today from the pulpit of the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia, pastor John L. Burrows delivers a rousing sermon criticizing the opening of a new theatre in the Confederate capital. The new theatre replaces the city’s Hewitt Theatre that had burned on New Year’s day, and was built and is owned by a woman,…
The throes of war cannot stop Baptists of the South from the task of starting new congregations. Today the Smyrna Baptist Church of Pike County, Mississippi is birthed. The new church is founded at a time when many of the county’s men are fighting for the Confederacy. Meanwhile, another Baptist, Georgia Gov. Joseph E. Brown,…