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Tag Archives: triennial convention

Baptists and the American Civil War: September 3, 1861

A newly-published apologist tract for slavery is circulating and making glad the hearts of white slaveholders in the South. Entitled, “Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible,” the booklet-length volume, written by a Baptist layman, surveys the presence of slavery in the Bible, then concludes: If our Southern slaveholders were all animated by this heavenly spirit of…

September 3, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.
J. Warren Merrill, Massachusetts Baptist

Baptists and the American Civil War: April 24, 2011

J. Warren Merrill of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a successful businessman and local civic leader. He serves as mayor of Cambridge from 1865-1867. He is also a Baptist, having been baptized in the Baldwin Place Baptist Church in Boston in 1833. Now, his membership resides with the Cambridge Baptist Church. In addition, Merrill is a leader…

April 24, 2011 in Archive: This Day in Civil War History.

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