Southern Baptist educational institutions are falling upon hard financial times. Many students have marched off to war, while funding is shrinking as the war drags on into winter. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina is among the struggling institutions. The seminary is now scrambling to secure enough funding to remain solvent, while…
This month a scholar-in-the-making, whose recent appointment as a Southern Baptist missionary to Japan has been rescinded by war-related financial difficulties, joins Virginia’s Norfolk Light Artillery Blues. The new enrollee has an impressive pedigree: he is a graduate of the Norfolk Academy (a military school) and the University of Virginia, a student of John A.…
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.…