October 17: Feed the Children.
The following plaintive appeared on the pages of a Presbyterian newspaper in October of 1879, exhorting both pastors and parents to pay better attention to the spiritual nurture of the…
October 16: Rev. William Buell Sprague
Today’s post is drawn from Alfred Nevin’s Encyclopedia of the Presbyterian Church (1884), p. 850: The Long Pastorate of a Great Pastor and Biographer William Buell Sprague was born in Andover,…
October 15: Death of Charles Erdman
It was at the momentous Syracuse, N.Y. meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. where Dr. J. Gresham Machen was officially defrocked from the ministry of that…
October 13: The Ordination of Adam Boyd
What follows provides us with an interesting insight into the process of licensure and ordination for ministerial candidates nearly 300 years ago. Here too, our readers find out where our…
October 12: Dr. Joseph P. Free [1911-1974]
Our post today is excerpted from the Minutes of the 153rd General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod (1975), p. 176-177: The cause of Bible-believing archaeological study today owes…