August 27: Gideon Blackburn
Quite a Remarkable Man, Spent for the Gospel. Drawing again from Alfred Nevin's Presbyterian Encyclopedia (p. 75), we read of the Rev. Gideon Blackburn: Gideon Blackburn was born in Augusta…
August 26: William Buell Sprague, D.D.
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,…
August 25: “The Brazen Serpent” by Joseph H. Jones
An excerpt from The Brazen Serpent, by Joseph Huntington Jones provides our Lord's Day sermon today. Rev. Jones, as you will remember from yesterday's post, was a close friend of…
August 24: Joseph Huntington Jones
Ashbel Green's Editor and Friend Joseph Huntington Jones, D. D., the brother of Judge Joel Jones, was born in Coventry, Connecticut, on August 24th, 1797. He graduated at Harvard University,…
August 23: Rev. John Cuthbertson
Reprise: A Communion for American Covenanters The entire service of Communion that Sabbath day on August 23, 1752 lasted nine hours. But for some two hundred and fifty Covenanters gathered on that…