October 19: John Livingston Nevius

A New Method of Missionary Work by Rev. David T. Myers For centuries, the work of foreign missions all over the world  had been done by faithful missionaries going from nations…

October 17: Feed the Children

The following plaintive appeared on the pages of a Presbyterian newspaper in October of 1879, exhorting both pastors and parents to pay better attention to the spiritual nurture of the…

October 16: Rev. George A. Blackburn

George Andrew Blackburn, D.D., was born in Greene County, Tennessee, on this day, October 16th, in 1861. He was the son of John Melson* Blackburn, a Presbyterian minister, who held…