John Randolph Tucker, the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, tonight lectures at the Second Baptist Church of Richmond to the Young Men’s Christian Association on the subject of “The Southern Church justified in its support of the South in the present war.” Tucker begins his discourse with a disclaimer concerning church and state.…
Today the 49th annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union convenes in the First Baptist Church of Cleveland, Ohio. U.S. Senator Ira Harris (NY), a Baptist layman, presides over the meeting as the organization’s president. Singing, scripture reading and prayer open the conference. Delegates from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New…
North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder editor J. D. Hufham offers his current, and rather sober, assessment of the war effort as news of Confederate victory in the Battle of Chancellorsville filters southward. The next few weeks or months will be productive of results of vast moment to the people of this nation. The enemy seem…