May 2014 – Page 4 – This Day in Presbyterian History

May 16: The Gardiner Spring Resolutions (1861)

A Political Issue Divides the Old School General Assembly With the Old School General Assembly meeting on May 16, 1861, the unity of the nation was at stake. Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina has…

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May 15: Death of Francis A. Schaeffer (1984)

A Christian Apologist of the Twentieth Century What more can be written about Francis Schaeffer that has not already been said? Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1912 . . . Born again in 1930…

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May 14: Rev. Erskine Mason [1805-1851]

The Life of a Christian Minister Can Never Be Written. Erskine Mason was born in New York City on April 16, 1805. He was the youngest child of the Rev.…

davidtmyers 14 May, 2014

May 13: Francis Blanchard Hodge

In Following the Lord, He Followed His Brothers Francis Blanchard Hodge was the seventh child of Dr. Charles Hodge and his wife Sarah, and was born on October 24, 1838,…

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May 12: Rev. & Mrs. Albert Dodd

A Great Address from a Man Small in Stature The smaller man of stature was waiting at the Chinese dock for his former student friend from Princeton Theological Seminary that…

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