In the North, home to few battlefield clashes, church activity is less affected by the war. Today, the North Lyme Baptist Church (also known as the North Baptist Church) of Lyme, Connecticut dedicates a new meeting house. The town of Lyme was founded in 1665, while the North Lyme Baptist Church had been established in…
In 1846, one year after Baptists North and South had divided over the issue of African slavery, white and black Baptists in Stonington, Connecticut reached a mutual decision regarding their respective but related future. African members of the First Baptist Church petitioned their white brethren: Beloved Brethren: Believing that the time has come when the…
William R. Williams, prominent Northern Baptist pastor of Amity Baptist Church, New York, delivers the keynote address at this evening’s convening of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. The war is heavy on the minds, hearts and spirits of all present, and Williams offers no sympathy to the Southern Cause as supported by his fellow…