Dr. Francis Wayland, former American (Northern) Baptist leader, president of Brown University, pastor of First Baptist Church, Providence, Rhode Island, and early anti-slavery advocate, passed away on September 28. Today’s New York Times publishes an obituary of the nationally-known Baptist. “Rev. Dr. FRANCIS WAYLAND, who was more than 28 years President of Brown University, was…
At 7:22 a.m. comes the pronouncement: President Abraham Lincoln is dead, the victim of an assassin’s bullet the evening previous. The body of Lincoln, the champion of liberty for all and first American president to be assassinated, is moved to the White House. Still at large and now in hiding, the killer, John Wilkes Booth,…
Francis Wayland (1796-1865), venerable Northern Baptist minister, educator and author, is in the twilight of his career. Having served as the president of Brown University (1827-1855) and pastor of the First Baptist Church in America, Providence, Rhode Island (1857-1858), Brown now devotes his time to writing. Having long ago published his anti-slavery views in a…