October 18: Van Horn on WSC Q. 42

STUDIES IN THE WESTMINSTER SHORTER CATECHISM by Rev. Leonard T. Van Horn Q.42. — What is the sum of the ten commandments? A. — The sum of the ten commandments…

October 17: Feed the Children.

The following plaintive appeared on the pages of a Presbyterian newspaper in October of 1879, exhorting both pastors and parents to pay better attention to the spiritual nurture of the…

October 16: Rev. William Buell Sprague

Today’s post is drawn from Alfred Nevin’s Encyclopedia of the Presbyterian Church (1884), p. 850: The Long Pastorate of a Great Pastor and Biographer William Buell Sprague was born in Andover,…

October 15: Death of Charles Erdman

It was at the momentous Syracuse, N.Y. meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. where Dr. J. Gresham Machen was officially defrocked from the ministry of that…

October 14: Dr. C. Everett Koop

To Spare a Mother’s Life is a Myth of Abortion The statement of the medical doctor blew the lid off of one of the more famous grounds of abortion.  He…