Washington, D.C.’s E Street Baptist Church, the city’s leading Baptist congregation, is in turmoil. In the face of an impending split, the pastor recently resigned, and mere days earlier a significant numbers of members met to begin the formation of a new congregation (soon to be known as Calvary Baptist Church). The cause of the…
If the war were to last for years, what should Baptists of the South do? An editorial in this week’s Georgia Baptist’s Christian Index offers an answer: This war may last and probably will last during Mr. Lincoln’s administration; and, in the meantime, Sabbath schools must be maintained that our children may be taught the…
North Carolina Baptists learn of good news in the Confederate camps near Richmond, Virginia, in an article in this week’s Biblical Recorder: A few weeks since a number of Testaments were sent into a camp near [Richmond, Virginia]. The religious soldiers immediately determined to organize themselves into a Sunday School, and to invite their comrades…