Today the Georgia Baptist Association convenes in Oglethorpe County at Bairds Church. The association is the oldest of such Baptist bodies in Georgia. Today the gathering is called to order, followed by a sermon, singing, prayer and the reading of letters (correspondence) from “the Churches” of the association. Committees are also appointed, from which reports…
Northern Baptist minister Charles Henry Corey, a representative of the American Baptist Home Mission Society and active in preaching to Union troops and working among freedmen during the war, has in recent months assisted freedmen in establishing churches and schools. This month the Canadian native Corey returns to Charleston, where he had previously been stationed…
Born in 1816 near Sherburne, New York and orphaned at the age of five, as an adult John Anson Nash became a Baptist minister. First pastoring in New York, the American Baptist Home Mission Society in 1851 sent him to Fort Des Moines, Iowa. There he helped organize the First Baptist Church of Des Moines.…