Southern states are astir, forming militia regiments and seeking funding. Samuel Boykin, the editor of Georgia’s Baptist newspaper, The Christian Index, calls for “every freeman of Georgia” to “prepare to discharge his duty manfully.” Delegates to the Georgia Baptist Convention, convening today in Athens, talk excitedly about their new nation and the battlefield clashes certain…
J. Warren Merrill of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a successful businessman and local civic leader. He serves as mayor of Cambridge from 1865-1867. He is also a Baptist, having been baptized in the Baldwin Place Baptist Church in Boston in 1833. Now, his membership resides with the Cambridge Baptist Church. In addition, Merrill is a leader…
A news item in the Baltimore Exchange discusses an alleged conversation that Richard Fuller (illustration), the well-known Baptist preacher who at the time is pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore, had with U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, a former Baptist. Fuller, a pro-slavery advocate, is also president of the slave-centric Southern Baptist Convention. His…