December 11: H.B. Pratt . . . and his mom!

Henry Barrington Pratt, Presbyterian missionary and teacher, son of Rev. Nathaniel A. and Catherine Barrington (King) Pratt, was born near Darien, Georgia, on May 26, 1832. He attended Oglethorpe University,…

December 10: Covenanters

Covenanters in the Crown of London By Rev. David T. Myers The story of the Covenanters defeated at Bothwell Bridge and sent aboard the Crown of London as slaves is…

December 9: Westminster Debates Funerals

  It is well also for another reason, that—if obliged to publish at present only a part of these records—Drs. Mitchell and Struthers should have selected the “Minutes,” beginning with…

December 9: Henry Jackson Van Dyke, Sr.

Henry Jackson Van Dyke, Sr., was born in Abington, Pennsylvania, 2 March 1822. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating there in 1843 and later graduating from Princeton…