The March 19, 1896, issue of The Alabama Baptist was about six weeks before Southern Baptists gathered in Chattanooga for that year’s annual meeting. It this issue of the paper, Z.D. Roby of Opelika wrote, “Our Foreign Mission Board is in real distress.” The Foreign Board needed to raise $100,000 before the annual meeting. Roby said there were 17,000 cooperating…
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