For white citizens, New Year’s Day in Augusta, Georgia is filled with hope for the coming months. Augusta, a large and important city in the state, is also the birthplace of the Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC had been founded in 1845 in the city’s First Baptist Church, at a south-wide convention called by leading…
In the midst of a southern war effort that is rapidly stunting Baptist mission work at home and abroad, the first German Baptist congregation in Texas is organized today. The Ebenezer (now Greenvine) German Baptist Church in Burton is led by pastor J. Frank Kiefer, who serves the congregation until 1867. Born in 1833 in…
Southern Baptists are now publishing religious tracts and New Testaments for soldiers by the thousands. The extensive nature of their soldier publications through the Baptist Colportage Board in Richmond, Virginia, is evident. As reported by the Richmond Times Daily Dispatch: Much good may be done in the progress of the present campaign by clergymen, as…