January 19: Governor David Hall [1752-1817]
A Governor by Eighteen Votes by Rev. David T. Myers The margin in the election couldn’t get any closer than it was. But on January 19, 1802, David Hall won the race…
January 5: The Funeral of J. Gresham Machen
[excerpted from The Christian Beacon, 1.48 (7 January 1937)] : Simplicity marked the funeral service of the Rev. Dr. J. Gresham Machen in the Spruce Street Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Tuesday morning, January 5,…
January 1: Van Horn on Westminster Doctrines
"To God's Glory" : A Practical Study of a Doctrine of the Westminster Standards. by Rev. Leonard T. Van Horn THE SUBJECT : Comfort in Our Lack of Perfection. THE…
December 9: James Patriot Wilson
Our post today is drawn from Richard Webster’s History of the Presbyterian Church. The son of Rev. Dr. Matthew* and Elizabeth Wilson, James Patriot Wilson was born at Lewes, Sussex County,…
August 26: Hold Fast the Faithful Word
It was on this day, August 26, in 1829 that the Rev. Dr. Samuel Miller delivered a sermon at the installation of the Rev. William Buell Sprague. While a student at Princeton,…