May 11: Dr. William H. Jeffers
A Father’s Instruction, and A Son’s Rejection The Rev. William Hamilton Jeffers, D.D., LL.D., was born at Cadiz, Ohio, on May 1, 1838. His parents were members of the Covenanter…
May 10: James Hamilton Dies in Ireland (1666)
Deposed by Man, but Not By God by Rev. David T. Myers They called them “precopalians,” which strange as it may sound (and spell!), was defined as Scottish Presbyterians who…
May 9: Macartney and Machen
While searching out a question for a patron of the PCA Historical Center, I came across this letter to the editor of CHRISTIANITY TODAY [the new series, 1956ff.] In this letter,…
May 8: George Laurens Petrie
Last Man Standing The Rev. George Holinshead Whitfield Petrie was born on May 5, 1812 and he died on May 8, 1885. Lacking a good substantive account about the Rev.…
May 7: William Buell Sprague
A Great Christian Biographer William Buell Sprague was born in Andover, Tolland county, Connecticut, on October 16, 1795. He graduated at Yale College in 1815, then in 1816 entered the…