August 3: Maltbie Babcock, Composer
Seeing My Father’s world He never even heard the hymn which he wrote, sung by a choir or congregation. He never heard it as an instrumental musical piece. That is…
August 2: The Stewart-Thompson Trial (1935)
LAYMEN, BEWARE ! The persecution of the Independent Board goes on apace. On August 2, 1935, the session of Harriet Hollond Memorial Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, voted to place on trial…
August 1: The Assemblies of the Church
Post for August 1, 1545 Knox's Number Two We begin, readers, with a quick quiz this day. Name the Reformers who followed men like Luther, Calvin, and Knox in their…
August 1: Rev. C. W. Grafton [1846-1934]
"Tell me about them big arms!" Cornelius Washington Grafton was born on December 21, 1846 and diied on this day, August 1st, in 1934. Trained for the ministry at Columbia…