Baptist organizations North and South convene in the opening days of the month. Virginia’s General Baptist Association – the state organization of Virginia Baptists – meeting in Petersburg offers pointed statements regarding the war, expressing a willingness to give all Baptist monies to the Confederacy in order to secure southern victory: The long-cherished hatred of…
The war is the talk of the town in Greenville, South Carolina as the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary graduates its second class. Nearly one hundred years later, a historian would thus comment on this day: “When the second commencement of Southern seminary was held on May 27, 1861, great excitement prevailed in the seminary family.…
As delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention depart Savannah, Georgia, to journey back to their homes, newspapers throughout the South report on the convention meeting. The Richmond Times Dispatch’s reporting of the Savannah gathering focuses on statements by SBC president Richard Fuller, pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church of Baltimore, Maryland: Let me but utter…