January 21: Van Horn on WSC Q. 48

STUDIES IN THE WESTMINSTER SHORTER CATECHISM by Rev. Leonard T. Van Horn Q. 48. — What are we especially taught by these words, “before me,” in the first commandment? A. — These…

January 20: Miller on Honorary Degrees

An aside, though there was some discussion of honorary degrees recently among Presbyterians on the Internet. THE ORIGIN OF LITERARY DEGREES. The practice of conferring honors of literary institutions on…

January 19: Children of an Honest Man

  Testimony of Excerpted from Annals of the Disruption, by Thomas Brown (Edinburgh: MacNiven & Wallace, 1884), p. 55:-- The remark of another country minister, the Rev. R. Inglis, of…

January 18: What H.L. Mencken Said

Eulogy for Dr. J. Gresham Machen Dr. Machen’s sudden death evoked comments by newspaper and church paper commentators all over America, and from Christians and non-Christians alike. What Dr. Machen…