May 9: Macartney and Machen
While searching out a question for a patron of the PCA Historical Center, I came across this letter to the editor of CHRISTIANITY TODAY [the new series, 1956ff.] In this letter,…
May 8: George Laurens Petrie
Last Man Standing The Rev. George Holinshead Whitfield Petrie was born on May 5, 1812 and he died on May 8, 1885. Lacking a good substantive account about the Rev.…
May 7: William Buell Sprague
A Great Christian Biographer William Buell Sprague was born in Andover, Tolland county, Connecticut, on October 16, 1795. He graduated at Yale College in 1815, then in 1816 entered the…
May 6: Van Horn on WSC Q. 1
Through a technical difficulty, we are unable today to present the scheduled post of Rev. Leonard Van Horn’s commentary on Question 69 of the Westminster Shorter Catechism. That being the…
May 5: John Dunbar, Missionary to the Pawnee Indians
Serving Christ in a Difficult Field by Rev. David T. Myers Many Christians don’t realize that Christian Presbyterians made an active effort to evangelize native Americans during the same years…
