September 5: Covenanter Slaves
A Final Covenant Twenty-eight Presbyterians signed a final covenant on the eve of their departure from Leith, Scotland in early September, 1685. It said in part, "That, now to leave their…
September 4: Death of Beatrix Umpherston, lead writer of Children’s Covenant (1686)
Children's Covenant Our post today is set in the context of the small devotional groups which arose in central and southern Scotland after the death of Richard Cameron and Donald…
September 3: Rev. William Wick [1768-1815]
Congregational Cows and Presbyterian Butter There were no roads west of Buffalo, and few boats upon Lake Erie when those first settlements began to be formed in the region of…
September 2: Andrew Melville’s Two-Kingdom Speech
The day is lost to church history. We know the month and the year of the Two Kingdom Speech of Andrew Melville. That month and year was September 1596. But the exact day…
September 1: Chaplain David Peterson
Good Providence Sums Up His Calling Reared outside the prairie town of Lemmon, South Dakota, David Peterson would travel to many war-torn countries around the world before his calling as an Army chaplain would…