The First Baptist Church of Northampton, Massachusetts burns today. While the building is not entirely destroyed, for the next eighteen months worship services are held in the Northampton Town Hall while the church meeting house undergoes repairs. Meanwhile, the Educational Association of Virginia is formed today in the basement of the First Baptist Church of…
In the border state of Maryland, Baltimore’s First Baptist Church–according to an account two decades following the war–weathers the war years quite well, although sadness of an unusual variety marks this day. Another season of refreshing visited the Church in 1863, resulting in the addition of a small number by baptism, by letter and by…
The annual convention of the American Baptist Missionary Union, hosted by the First Baptist Church of Cleveland, Ohio, is in its second day. Most of the day is spent listening to reports from foreign American Baptist missionary fields. While the war at home overshadows missionary efforts far away, the Union maintains a strong and vibrant…