The Portsmouth Baptist Association of Virginia assembles at the Blackwater Baptist Church in Prince Anne County. Delegates voice approval of a statewide Baptist committee formed in June “to provide for the education of children of deceased and disabled Confederate soldiers, and that we earnestly urge our brethren to help in this good work.” A resolution…
Six months following the conclusion of the war, many Baptist churches in the South are just now resuming congregational life with some sense of normalcy. Some do not reopen until this month, while others continue adjusting to the realities of freedom for black members. This month the Oak Grove Baptist Church of Arkansas finally reopens…
In today’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald, an editorial offers a Southern Baptist commentary on “Relations Between Northern and Southern Baptists.” Of the recent war: “The conflict was unfortunate, terrible, and, to the South, most desolating. The fortune of war was against us. Our armies were overthrown, our fair heritage was overrun and wasted, immense quantities…