1862 EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. September 25 Imprint of the Proclamation in The Baptist Examiner Baptist through to his reception of

through to his reception of a call to San Francisco late in 1861

and remained there until his death in July

The implications of using this passage as relates to Allen's views of the Bishop are difficult not to think of as intentional

preached a sermon urging self-reflection

perhaps from his wound

1862 EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. September 25 Imprint of the Proclamation in The Baptist Examiner Baptist through to his reception ofAn exceptional assemblage of The Examiner, one of the most influential Baptist newspapers in antebellum and Civil War America. Northern Baptists were deeply engaged in the slavery controversy, the Southern Baptist Convention having formally split from northern Baptists in 1845 precisely over the question of slaveholding missionaries. By 1862 the northern Baptist press was an active participant in the theological and political debate over emancipation,