September 8: Rev. John Ewing, D.D. [1732-1802]
A Polymath of the First Order The following is Dr. Samuel Miller’s reply to William Buell Sprague’s request for a biographical account of the Rev. Dr. John Ewing, who had…
August 18: Rev. Gardiner Spring, D.D.
It Remains a Message for Our Time. This day, August 18th, marks the death, in 1873, of the Rev. Gardiner Spring. He was already 76 years old when he proposed his…
August 16: Asa Dodge Smith [1804-1877]
Back When Presbyterians Seemed to Run Everything Dartmouth College, located in Hanover, New Hampshire, was founded in December of 1769 (We will mention in passing that Samuel Miller was born…
July 25: Rev. James Hall
At peace with himself, and with his God, and engaged in a good cause. Our entry today is drawn from William Henry Foote's great work, Sketches of North Carolina, Historical…
June 27: Rev. James Rodgers (1785-1863)
When Christ is rich, how can I be poor? Today's post is excerpted from the history written by P. H. Fowler—Historical Sketch of Presbyterianism within the bounds of the Synod…