September 8: Memorial for Wm. Swan Plumer – 1881
Filed under “They just don’t write ’em like that any more.” — Just came across the 1881 resolution by the 1881 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, US, on page…
October 7: Rev. David T. Myers
Our Primary Author, now retired!, & on his Birthday, No Less! Eighty years ago, on this day, October 7, 1940, out on the wind-swept plains of Lemmon, South Dakota, David T.…
October 6: Warfield on Our Church Attendance
“We cannot afford to be wiser than our Lord in this matter. If any one could have pled that his spiritual experience was so lofty that it did not require…
October 5: Train Up a Child (or Yourself!)
A few thoughts on the value of the Westminster Shorter Catechism,excerpted from THE CHARLESTON OBSERVER, 15 October 1836, p. 166, columns 2-3:—[At the moment, we’re short of events for the 5th of this month.]…
October 4: Cry the Warning!
The following is part of a sermon preached by Dr. Franklin Pierce Ramsay on June 13, 1926, in his son’s pulpit at Calvary Presbyterian Church of Staten Island, New York,…