The war transforms thousands of churches in the South, one of which is the home church of the woman destined to be the most famous Southern Baptist woman of all time: Lottie Moon (1840-1912). Today, the Scottsville Baptist Church of Virginia opens its doors–not necessarily by choice–to ill and wounded Confederate soldiers. Impressed by the…
Readers of this week’s North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder are treated to an essay entitled, “Who Will Stand in the Gap”?, which in part declares: In a time of abounding iniquity, God once said to his ancient people, after preferring sundry heavy charges against them, “As they gather silver into the midst of the furnace…
Today, Samuel N. Yeoman–merchant, railroad builder, and Baptist layman–begins recruiting soldiers in his home state of Ohio. As excerpted from a short biographical sketch of this enterprising Northern Baptist layman: In thirty days he recruited two full companies (C and K), and assisted to recruit two more companies, which were assigned to the 114th Regiment.…