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Departing today from the calendar, we would like to present this excerpt from Volume III of The Presbyterian Magazine, September 1853, pp. 413-415. This recounting of the venerable Dr. Alexander’s…

Pastors according to God’s heart What a worthy aim for the under shepherds of the  visible church of God!  The phrase is biblical, being taken from Jeremiah 3:15. It says…

We Thank God  on Every Remembrance of You When Professor John Murray retired from Westminster to return to his beloved land of Scotland, he attended for the last time the General…

STUDIES IN THE WESTMINSTER SHORTER CATECHISM by Rev. Leonard T. Van Horn Q. 8. — How doth God execute his decrees? A. — God executeth his decrees in the works…

The document known as the Auburn Affirmation was presented to the public in January of 1924, bearing the signatures of 150 Presbyterian pastors and elders. But just four months later,…