August 17: Rev. Daniel Baker [1791-1857]
A Calvinistic Evangelist Imagine your mother dying when you were an infant. Then imagine your father dying when you were only eight years of age. How difficult your upbringing would be. In…
August 16: Van Horn on WSC Q. 32
STUDIES IN THE WESTMINSTER SHORTER CATECHISM by Rev. Leonard T. Van Horn Q. 32. — What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life? A. — They that…
August 15: Of Presbyteries, Synods, & General Assemblies
We continue this week with the remainder of Chapter VII of PRESBYTERIANISM FOR THE PEOPLE, by the Rev. Robert P. Kerr (1883). Please keep in mind that the author here…
August 14: A Farewell to Brothers
Parting Words from the Rev. John A. Van Lear On a grassy knoll in Virginia, surrounded by scenes of surpassing beauty, stands the Mossy Creek Church. The first settled pastor…
August 13: George R.M. Gilchrist
A Heart for Missions It was a proud day in Las Vegas, New Mexico, on March 14, 1892, when Elizabeth Rowland Gilchrist and her husband Joseph James Gilchrist welcomed their…