October 15: Harmony Sunday-School Society
"I owe more, said the speaker, to my knowledge of these doctrines, as taught in that manual, than to my three years’ study in the Theological Seminary." A few thoughts…
October 14: Cumberland Presbyterians & the WCF
It was on this day, October 14th, in 1814, that the Cumberland Presbyterians adopted their unique edition of the Westminster Confession of Faith. Taking our text from George P. Hays, The Presbyterians, p. 470-471,…
October 12: T.D. Witherspoon on the Distinctive Doctrines of Presbyterianism (1883)
Yes, it's a long post, but hey, it's Saturday—what better way to spend a part of the day? (key points are in bold print, if you want to skim this)…
October 11: Reflecting on the Death of a Great Man
Dr. Robert Dick Wilson We have written before how one of the great Princeton professors and a founding professor at Westminster Theological Seminary, Dr. Robert Dick Wilson, died on this…
October 10: The Trail of Tears
An Injustice Which Found No Excuse Related here is a brief account of Presbyterian missions among the Cherokee and Choctaw Indians, just prior to and immediately following the grave injustice…