Today the Long Run Baptist Association of Kentucky meets, an association that includes the city of Louisville, located across the Ohio River from the Union state of Indiana. Kentucky is a border state now solidly under Union control. News summaries from individual churches largely focus on internal matters, and are reported as follows: Elk Creek.…
Revivals in the Confederate army camps and doctrinal debate among Baptists of the North offer two glimpses into Baptist life today. Today’s edition of Virginia Baptists’ Religious Herald reports that revival meetings within Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s army have been going on for “fifty-five consecutive days and nights without regard to weather or other…
Baptist higher education carries on in the North, against the backdrop of war. Today, as the year draws toward a close, Franklin College president Silas Bailey, in the face of an illness, resigns as president of the Indiana Baptist school. Bailey has been a leader of Indiana Baptists, served in pastoral roles and spoken vocally…