December 27: Charles Hodge [1797-1878]

A Son of Presbyterians and Patriots — by Rev. David T. Myers There is some dispute as to exactly on what date in December Charles Hodge was born.  Several sources, one of them  a…

December 26: Rev. Elihu Spencer

A  Church Planter One Year, A Country Politician the Next Year — by Rev. David T. Myers Born  on February 12, 1721, in Millington, Connecticut, Elihu Spencer studied at Yale College, graduating…

December 24: J. Marcellus Kik

Recently the magazine CHRISTIANITY TODAY has been in the news, and with some relevance we re-post an earlier article from some years back concerning the Rev. J. Marcellus Kik, one of the…

December 23: Samuel Mills Tenney

From Trash to Treasure. Presbyterian pastors love to rumage through old books. Browsing through a used bookstore in Houston, Texas, in 1902, the Rev. Samuel Mills Tenney noticed a bound…