Some Baptist contributions during the war years take place away from battlefields. Words themselves are powerful, ever more so as the war nears the one year anniversary of the firing upon Fort Sumter. Perhaps the most notable moment this month among Baptists of the North occurs on a Wednesday night at the First Baptist Church…
This month, Social activist and abolitionist Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) and husband Samuel Howe (1801-1876) visit Washington D.C. and have an audience with former Baptist, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. During their visit to the city, the Howes witness a military review and listen to Company K of the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer sing “John Brown’s Body”…
Charles Henry Rowe (born 1834) of Gloucester, Maine, having graduated from Newton Theological Institution earlier this year, is today ordained into the Baptist ministry. Upon his ordination, he assumes his first pastorate at Holyoke Baptist Church in Holyoke, Massachusetts. One year later, he returns to his home state, accepting a call to pastor the First…