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…
At a time when the Confederacy’s fortunes seem to be on the upswing, this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder publishes a commentary on “Providence and this War.” You launch a loose plank on the swollen river, and from the bank watch patiently its course, as it drifts along–but you cannot guide it. It is…
Today, United States hero and Baptist layman Robert Smalls is sent to New York on a speaking tour to raise support for the Union cause. Smalls, a former Southern slave, became the toast of the North when, four months earlier, he captured the Confederate gunboat Planter in Charleston, South Carolina, the heart of the Confederacy.…