As the year draws to a close and a week following the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing slavery, few white Southern Baptists in state newspapers bother to discuss the advance of freedom in America. Rather, today’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald contains articles about a variety of other items and issues. Temperance is…
In Galveston, Texas, this month the Baptist-supported American Missionary Association and the Freedmen’s Bureau conduct “Sunday schools and church services in addition to regular school.” One Sunday school among Freedmen, touted as the largest in town, boasts some fifty students who are reading the Bible, an impressive achievement in the context that only a few…
Baptists formally arrived in Lake County, Indiana in the 1830s. A Baptist Sunday School was established at Cedar Lake in 1839. In the years following Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians have worked together in the task of conducting Sunday School. Today a “few superintendents, teachers and friends of Sunday-schools in Lake County” meet at Crown Point…