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  1. Fayetteville Presbytery Succeeds From Union
    date October 11, 1861map CUMBERLAND, North Carolinatags Church/Religious-Activity

    In May 1861, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America decided by a near unanimous vote to endorse the Republican Administration. Consequently, the national church breached the fundamental law of Presbyterianism, by making themselves party to sectional agitations. These resolutions passed by the national church require its members to maintain their allegiance to...

  2. Temperance Alliance of the State of Maryland
    date May 6, 1874map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags Church/Religious-Activity

    The inaugural convention for the Temperance Alliance of the State of Maryland was held on May 6, 1874. There were four hundred delegates present, including 260 from the city of Baltimore, approximately fifty women, and at least fifty blacks. There were also several Reverends who spoke at the convention. A resolution was proposed to aid the women's temperance crusade and request women from the state...

  3. Preaching on the Steps of the Courthouse
    date November 20, 1873map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity, Crime/Violence, Law

    A stranger preaching on the steps of their courthouse interrupted the daily chores of the citizens of Staunton on Thursday. Andrew Jackson Kearney, supposedly of Loudon County, had been drifting from city to city, traveling from Harrisonburg to Staunton to spread his religious fervor. A curious crowd gathered to hear the sermon that followed his public singing and praying, eloquently speaking to...

  4. Religious Revival in Knoxville
    date March 12, 1874map KNOX, Tennesseetags Church/Religious-Activity

    On March 12, 1874 The Atlanta Constitution printed a report from a correspondent from Knoxville, Tennessee concerning a religious revival there. Mr. John T. McGuire reported that the meetings began when the pastors of two Presbyterian Churches decided to hold prayer meetings in hopes of reconciling relations between the Churches that had become strained after the Civil War. First Presbyterian Church...

  5. Southern Baptist Convention Formed by 293 Representatives of Churches in the Southeastern U.S.
    date May 8, 1845 to May 12, 1845map RICHMOND, Georgiatags Agriculture, Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Slavery

    In 1845, a group of Southern Baptists broke away from the Triennial Convention and the American Baptist Home Mission Society (ABHMS) due to differences on the slavery issue. This particular group of Southern Baptists did not oppose slavery, as the Triennial Convention and the ABHMS had begun to do. The Baptist Board, situated in Boston, in November of 1844, adopted certain resolutions, one of which...

  6. John England Named First Catholic Bishop of Charleston
    date June 17, 1820map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Church/Religious-Activity, Slavery

    John England served a priest in various capacities in his native country, Ireland, from 1808 to 1820. On June 17, 1820, England was appointed by Pope Pius VII as bishop of the new diocese centered in Charleston, SC. He did not receive word of this decision until July 10, when he read the news in a letter from Reverend Henry Hughes. England was asked to accept the position and travel to America as...

  7. Teaching the Catechism to Slaves
    date June 26, 1858map WAYNE, Virginiatags African-Americans, Church/Religious-Activity, Education, Law, Politics, Race-Relations, Slavery

    Though this episode originally took place in Alabama, it was reprinted on the front page of the Ceredo Crescent in western Virginia. A Methodist preacher had been teaching the colored people out of catechism No. 1 - teaching them at the plantations, when a Baptist minister heard of his efforts and raised the alarm. The Baptist quickly called a meeting and began to denounce the practice of preaching...

  8. Adventists Pardoned
    date April 17, 1893map RHEA, Tennesseetags Arts/Leisure, Church/Religious-Activity, Law

    In Tennessee, Sunday was a sacred day. In fact, there were state-wide laws expressly prohibiting doing any sort of work on Sundays. So when nine Seventh-Day Adventists were caught doing work on a Sunday, they were arrested, tried, and convicted. They were sentenced to short jail terms and locked up. Later, Judge James C. Parks, the trial judge who passed the prison sentence on the men decided that...

  9. A New Yorker's Observations of Charleston
    date April 7, 1892map CHARLESTON, South Carolinatags Church/Religious-Activity, Economy, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    In the spring of 1892, an evangelical writer from New York City identified only by his initials, J.H.M, visited Charleston. During his visit, he made a number of observations regarding the state of the city 30 years after the Civil War. First and foremost, he states that the economy still has not recovered to its pre-war prosperity. He states, The people are cotton poor. Farmers are so crippled that...

  10. Episcopal Church Election Controversy
    date December 1, 1897 to December 3, 1897map PULASKI, Arkansastags Church/Religious-Activity, Economy, Politics

    The Arkansas Church Election, held on December 1, 1897, met in order to determine the election of Coadjutor Bishop of Little Rock. The New York Times reported on Friday, December 3, 1897 that the candidates for the position were Reverend John Gass of Little Rock, and William Montgomery Brown of Cleveland. The Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Church of Arkansas met and elected Archdeacon William...

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