May 2012 – Page 6 – This Day in Presbyterian History

May 6 : Clarence E. Macartney & the First Commencement at Westminster

This Day in Presbyterian History: An Historic Commencement Address Talk about history being made! The first ever commencement address delivered to the student body of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia,…

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May 5 : John Dunbar, Missionary to the Pawnee Indians

This Day in Presbyterian History: Serving Christ in a Difficult Field Many Christians don't realize that Christian Presbyterians made an active effort to evangelize native Americans during the same years…

davidtmyers 5 May, 2012

May 4 : “What Constitutes Schism” by J. Gresham Machen

This Day in Presbyterian History: What Constitutes Schism? In the May 4, 1936 edition of the Presbyterian Guardian (now on-line), Dr. J. Gresham Machen wrote an article on what constituted…

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May 3 : Abner Crump Hopkins, Chaplain [1835-1911]

This Day in Presbyterian History: A Chaplain of the Stonewall Brigade It was said that no danger deferred him; no sacrifices were too great for him to make. The year…

davidtmyers 3 May, 2012

May 2 : The Southern Presbyterian Journal Begins

This Day in Presbyterian History : In the early years of the second World War, the Japanese invasion of China forced missionaries from the Chinese field, including medical missionary L.…

archivist 2 May, 2012