April 14: William Swan Plumer
A Children’s Sermon That you might prepare your hearts for this Lord’s Day, we present today a sermon from the Rev. William Swan Plumer [1802-1880], a noted Southern Presbyterian pastor,…
April 13: Rev. Robert Wilson James
Sometimes You Just Need to Copy Someone. A long week with a tiring end. And so today we turn to Alfred Nevin’s account of the Rev. Robert Wilson James…: …who…
April 12: Presbyterian Churchmen United (PCU)
About a month ago we published a post about the organization Concerned Presbyterians and their newsletters. Today we would like to continue that theme with focus on a related group,…
April 11: Machen Debates Speer (1933)
Be Ready Always The day of the debate had brought a crowd of Presbyterian elders to the sanctuary of the Fourth Presbyterian Church on that day of April 11, 1933. The topic…
April 10: Rev. Samuel J. Baird
Mr. Polity. Polity is a fancy word for government, and in the nineteenth-century, when it came to church government, the Rev. S. J. Baird was one of the most knowledgeable…