February 27: Lewis Sperry Chafer [1871-1952]
Yep. Lewis Sperry Chafer, the founder of Dallas Theological Seminary, was a Presbyterian. As was Chafer’s mentor, C. I. (Cyrus Ingerson) Scofield, and as was Scofield’s mentor, James H. Brookes.…
February 26: Death of Caspar Wistar Hodge, Jr.
Dr. Caspar Wistar Hodge, who had served as the Charles Hodge Professor of Systematic Theology in the Princeton Theological Seminary since 1921, died on Friday morning, February 26, 1937, in the…
February 25: Old Mortality
Old Mortality: Robert Patterson [ca. 1713-1801] The purpose of this blog is to remind us of those saints who have gone before, and to recall something of our common history…
February 24: Rev. A.M. Stewart
On the Value of History At the time of his decease, the Rev. Alexander Morrison Stewart, D.D. was serving as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Chico, Butte county,…
February 23: Birth of Ichabod Smith Spencer
Here was a case of a child raised without regard to religion. His parents were decent enough by the world’s standards, but they were not Christians. Nonetheless, God called him.…