Today the Columbus Baptist Association of Georgia assembles at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Talbot County for the first day of a three-day meeting. The war permeates the sessions and formal discussions that take place throughout the associational meeting. Missions and Sunday Schools are suffering, delegates note, while some pulpits are no longer regularly…
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…
Today, Iowa’s Cedar Valley Baptist Association assembles at Waterloo. While the war is uppermost in the minds of the delegates, the issue of higher education is also a concern of some individuals present. At the seventh anniversary of the Cedar Valley Baptist Association held at Waterloo, September [26], 1862, H. I. Parker presented the prospects…