Today’s Biblical Recorder, newspaper of North Carolina Baptists, notes a visit by Thomas H. Watts–Confederate Attorney General and prominent Baptist laymen of Montgomery, Alabama’s First Baptist Church–to Grace Street Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia for a colportage meeting (that is, a meeting focused on the printing and distribution of Bibles and Baptist literature to Confederate…
In the South, the Virginia city of Fredericksburg is now living in the early days of what will prove to be a four month Union occupation. While the scene is peaceful on the surface, tension mingles with joy. White citizens are on edge, while liberated slaves receive food provisions from the U.S. commissary, the best…
“Young Brother Singleton,” identified as a theology student at Mercer University, today gives “an interesting discourse” to the congregation at Bethesda Baptist Church in Greene County, Georgia. He is sponsored, one would surmise, by Pastor Henry Holcomb Tucker, who doubles as university professor of metaphysics and belles-lettres. Besides a letter granted to member Sarah Jones,…