June 6: Pray for Your Pastor!
An Opportunity for Vindication The letter is still preserved at the state history building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Written to the Rev. William Marshall on June 6, 1786, it states simply that he, the pastor…
June 5: Old School/New School Division of the PCUSA
The Mother of All Schisms in Presbyterianism Old School Presbyterians . . . New School Presbyterians. You were either one or the other in the early to mid-nineteenth century in…
June 4: The Queensferry Paper [1680]
The Most Advanced of All the Covenanting Manifestos It was known simply as the Queensferry Paper, primarily because it was found on the body of a Covenanter in South Queensferry,…
June 3: Attendance at Church Courts
As we are now upon the annual season when the various Presbyterian denominations typically meet in General Assembly, the following short post seems appropriate to repeat here. It is taken…
June 2: Two Miracles in the Life of Ebenezer Erskine
There are two miracles associated with our Scottish subject today, Ebenezer Erskine [1680-1754]. One of the miracles was in the physical realm and the second was spiritual. First, for the…