September 2013 – This Day in Presbyterian History

September 30: Westminster, Witherspoon, and What to Do

Two Documents and a Digression Today's post is something of a modest exercise in exploring the archives, with two documents—both having the same date—drawn from two separate manuscript collections preserved at…

archivist 30 September, 2013

September 29: Rev. Ethan Osborn

Have You Improved the Sermon? The bicentennial observation of the founding of the Fairfield Presbyterian Church, of Fairton, New Jersey, commonly known as the Old Stone Church, was observed on…

archivist 29 September, 2013

September 28: Effectual Unto Salvation

The Purpose of the Bible for Unbelievers and Believers Today's post is a reprise from last year and a post written by our first author, the Rev. David T. Myers. If you…

archivist 28 September, 2013

September 27: George Tybout Purves, Pastor-Scholar

He was a wanted man The Presbyterian pastor teacher was a wanted man, that is, wanted by theological seminaries to teach at their school. Princeton Seminary wanted George T. Purves to teach…

Wayne Sparkman 27 September, 2013

September 26: Samuel Davies

God Will Surely Provide It was on this day, September 26th, in 1759, that the Rev. Samuel Davies was installed as President of the College of New Jersey. [It was…

archivist 26 September, 2013