Readers of today’s New York Times learn of a meeting of the United States Christian Commission this week in the Baptist Church of Saratoga, New York. The Christian Commission, created in 1861, is an organizational collaborative effort of government social services and Protestant Christians that furnishes supplies, medical services, and religious literature to Union troops.…
On this Sabbath day, Baptists South and North discuss slavery. Sam Richards, a member of Atlanta’s Second Baptist Church, writes of today’s church service and of “hateful” northern abolitionists. Dr. B. preached this morning the funeral sermon for Capt Davis from the text, “He being dead, yet speaketh.” It is sad to think how noble…
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…