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February 2: Contending Earnestly

[THE SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN JOURNAL 8.16 (15 December 1949): 9-13. Contending Earnestly For The Faith (“Exploring Avenues Of Acquaintance And Co-operation”) By Chalmers W. Alexander Jackson, Miss. This is the eleventh…

Wayne Sparkman 2 February, 2019

February 1: Rev. John Hill Aughey

A Miraculous Interposition of God's Providence by Rev. David T Myers It reads like an adventure novel. But it was not fiction for Presbyterian minister John Hill Aughey during the…

Wayne Sparkman 1 February, 2019

January 31: Rev. Jacob Jones Janeway [1774-1858]

On the Death of a Christian. Jacob Jones Janeway was a noted Philadelphia pastor in the first half of the nineteenth century, an author, and a close friend of the…

Wayne Sparkman 31 January, 2019

January 30: Lady Anne Cunningham

A Presbyterian Woman of Uncommon Courage by David T. Myers Lady Anna (some say Anne) Cunningham was a Scottish woman of Christian conviction and courage. Born into a family of…

Wayne Sparkman 30 January, 2019

January 29: Dr. Eliphalet Nott [1773-1866]

The following account has been freely edited from Fowler’s History of the Synod of Central New York (1877) and from the funeral discourse delivered by J. Trumbull Backus. At Home in the…

Wayne Sparkman 29 January, 2019