On the West coast, the First Baptist Church of Santa Clara, founded May 14, 1850, has since then longed to build a meeting house. Today, far from the ongoing skirmishes in the vicinity of the Tennessee city of Chattanooga, Santa Clara church members dedicate and celebrate their first facility. “A brick church building was erected…
Today is a national day of Thanksgiving as decreed by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Many Baptist congregations assemble to celebrate recent Union victories and listen to special presentations from guest speakers. One such Thanksgiving celebration is held at the Washington Avenue Baptist Church of Brooklyn, New York. The guest speaker is the Rev. Dr. Jeffery…
In the aftermath of the draft riots in New York City, today’s New York Times publishes a plea for churches to provide financial relief to help alleviate the suffering of the city’s blacks. In the name of a humanity which they enjoy in common with all of us, we make an appeal to Christians, Christian…