This year, in the wake of the Emancipation Proclamation, the founding of African Baptist churches proliferates. Unfortunately, the details of the formation of many of these congregations are nebulous. According to one early source, the Fourth Baptist Church, African (later Metropolitan Baptist Church) is formed this month in the District of Columbia “by a few holding…
John Randolph Tucker, the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, tonight lectures at the Second Baptist Church of Richmond to the Young Men’s Christian Association on the subject of “The Southern Church justified in its support of the South in the present war.” Tucker begins his discourse with a disclaimer concerning church and state.…
The annual convention of the American Baptist Missionary Union, hosted by the First Baptist Church of Cleveland, Ohio, is in its second day. Most of the day is spent listening to reports from foreign American Baptist missionary fields. While the war at home overshadows missionary efforts far away, the Union maintains a strong and vibrant…