The Bethel Baptist Association in Georgia convenes today for the group’s annual meeting. Representing Southern Baptist churches in the southwestern portion of the state, the association is comprised primarily of rural and small town congregations. Collectively, associational churches have a total of 4,479 members – 2,507 white members and 1,972 “colored” members. The ratio of…
Today’s Richmond Times Dispatch reports: Rev. L. W. Allen, a Baptist clergyman from Caroline county, passed through this city a few days since en route for Kentucky, to raise a regiment with which to fight the Yankee invaders. Rev. Mr. Allen has until recently been the pastor of one of the largest churches in Louisville,…
A number of Baptist newspapers existed during the Civil War era, both North and South. Few were in business for the duration of the war, however. Among Baptists, denominational-specific newspapers in the South were seemingly somewhat more common than in the North by the time of the war. Some earlier Northern Baptist newspapers, by the…