While few in numbers, Baptists nonetheless have established a solid presence in the Western state of California. Delegates from the San Fransisco Baptist Association meet this month and express their position, albeit not quite unanimously, regarding the war raging far from their new homes and churches: all are transplants, many from the North, but some…
As war-time casualties mount North and South, the two warring American nations increasingly make public appeals to God for his blessings in the form of victory over the enemy. This fall season, petitions to God arising from within the Confederate States are typically presented in the context of fasting and prayer and are frequently laced…
This month the Beaver Baptist Association of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania passes a resolution advocating “the confiscation of Rebel property” and “justice to all inhabitants of the land.” While enslaved Americans yet await freedom, white Baptists North and South live out their freedoms in a variety of ways. Today in Detroit, Michigan future Baptist clergyman, Isaac…