Today in Syracuse, New York, Winfield Scott, freshly graduated from Baptists’ Rochester Theological Seminary, is ordained by the Seneca Baptist Association. Born on February 26, 1837, in West Novi, Oakland County, Michigan, Winfield is the first son and fourth child in a large family of three brothers and four sisters. At the time of his…
Delegates to the recent Rehoboth Baptist Association of middle Georgia, held at Traveller’s Rest Baptist Church in Macon County, are this week reporting back to their respective congregations. Rehoboth Baptists, assured of God’s hand upon the Southern Confederacy, have proudly made their convictions known: In the midst of the stiring events which are to effect…
Not all white Baptists of the South are enamored with the war. An anonymous editorial in Georgia Baptist’s Christian Index pleads with pastors to keep war and pulpit separate: “Brethren of the ministry, we earnestly exhort you not to let your minds be diverted from your legitimate business by the excitements of the day. The…