News of the revivals among Baptists of the South are not confined to Baptist newspapers only. The nightly meetings at two of Richmond’s Baptist congregations merit mention this week in the Richmond Daily Dispatch: Revival meetings among Baptists are attracting sizable numbers of attendees. A protracted Meeting is being held every night in the Second…
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…
Jacob S. Wood, a new enlistee in Company E, 4th Missouri Cavalry (Union) is today ordained as a Baptist minister. Born January 6, 1839, in Page County, Virginia, Rev. Wood musters into his unit on October 30, 1863. Serving throughout the war, Wood sees action throughout much of the Confederacy, from Texas in the west…