November 20: First English Presbytery (1572)
The first Presbytery of English Puritans was held at Wandsworth, on November 20, 1572, the same year as the Bartholomew massacre. The organizer of this first Presbytery, and the leader…
November 19: John L. Burns
Two Heroes of Gettysburg Attend a Presbyterian Church The High Water Mark of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg, had been fought that July of 1863. Attending just four months later in…
November 18: Hudson T. Armerding
Saving the Best to the Last This writer was simply transferring his ordination from the Ascension Presbytery, having been called to a congregation within the bounds of Susquehanna Valley Presbytery in 1990. Being examined…
November 17: Shedd, on the Source of Error
Befitting a long name, a longish sermon on a most important point. William Greenough Thayer Shedd was born in June of 1820 of a distinguished New England lineage. Sensing the call…
November 16: Buswell’s Farewell as Moderator
Concluding our coverage of the second General Assembly of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, which was in the first several years of its existence known as the Presbyterian Church of America.…