October 15: Rehoboth Presbyterian Church
The First Presbyterian Congregation in America? This writer puts a question mark in our title simply because there are several churches which claim to be the first Presbyterian Church in…
October 14: Cumberland Presbyterians & the WCF
It was on this day, October 14th, in 1814, that the Cumberland Presbyterians adopted their unique edition of the Westminster Confession of Faith. Taking our text from George P. Hays, The…
October 12: T.D. Witherspoon on the Distinctive Doctrines of Presbyterianism (1883)
"The Distinctive Doctrines and Polity of Presbyterianism," is the title of an address delivered by the Rev. Thomas Dwight Witherspoon, on the occasion of the Joint Centennial celebration of the…
October 8: The Constitutional Covenant Union (1935)
A Call to Arms The first mass meeting and rally to challenge and encourage the conservative members in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. took place on October 8, 1935 at the Central North Broad Presbyterian Church…
October 6: Rev. Robert Baird
A Para-church Presbyterian Evangelist There can be no doubt that Robert Baird had both the gift of administration as well as the gift of teaching. Born on October 6, 1798 near Uniontown,…