June 10: Persecution Produces a Presbytery
Some of our past posts published here on This Day in Presbyterian History have given us portions on the life and ministry of Francis McKemie, in the context of the…
June 6: Pray for Your Pastor!
An Opportunity for Vindication The letter is still preserved at the state history building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Written to the Rev. William Marshall on June 6, 1786, it states simply that he, the pastor…
June 5: Old School/New School Division of the PCUSA
The Mother of All Schisms in Presbyterianism Old School Presbyterians . . . New School Presbyterians. You were either one or the other in the early to mid-nineteenth century in…
June 4: The Queensferry Paper [1680]
The Most Advanced of All the Covenanting Manifestos It was known simply as the Queensferry Paper, primarily because it was found on the body of a Covenanter in South Queensferry,…
June 2: Two Miracles in the Life of Ebenezer Erskine
There are two miracles associated with our Scottish subject today, Ebenezer Erskine [1680-1754]. One of the miracles was in the physical realm and the second was spiritual. First, for the…