On this Sunday, ten days have passed since the commencement of the war between North and South. Mary Beckley Bristow, an active member of Sardis Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky (a Calvinist congregation), in the pages of her diary writes of her loyalty to the South: I was at Union yesterday; every person I saw…
Dr. Galusha Anderson (illustration), a graduate of Rochester Theological Seminary (and the first to have earned a doctorate from Rochester), is the pastor of Second Baptist Church of St. Louis, Missouri. He has been pastor of the congregation for three turbulent years. During this time, two infant sons and his wife died, leaving Anderson with…
Former Texas Governor Sam Houston, since his removal from office a month ago as a result of his refusal to pledge an oath of allegiance to the Confederate Constitution, has often been asked why he refuses to support the Confederacy. Today Houston, a Baptist, is in Galveston, where a crowd gathers outside his hotel. Leaning…