Francis Wayland (1796-1865), venerable Northern Baptist minister, educator and author, is in the twilight of his career. Having served as the president of Brown University (1827-1855) and pastor of the First Baptist Church in America, Providence, Rhode Island (1857-1858), Brown now devotes his time to writing. Having long ago published his anti-slavery views in a…
Southern Baptist minister J. D. Hufham, editor of the Biblical Recorder of North Carolina, addresses his view of the current situation in the Confederacy as winter turns into spring and the second anniversary of the war nears. Winter is gone, and Spring is here. We feel it in the atmosphere and see it in the…
Today, the 800 African members (most of whom are slaves) of the First Baptist Church of Charlottesville (Virginia), in the wake of the recent enactment of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s Emancipation Proclamation, politely make a request to white leaders of the Southern Baptist congregation: may they be allowed to form their own congregation? Well understanding…