This Day in Presbyterian History

February 17: First Presbyterian, Gulfport, MS (org. 1899)

From the church's web site, at http://www.fpcgulfport.org/history The First Presbyterian Church of Gulfport, Mississippi, was organized on Friday, February 17, 1899, following a petition to the New Orleans Presbytery from eight…

archivist 17 February, 2015

February 16: The Death of B.B. Warfield

Most of the April, 2005 issue ofTabletalk magazine focused on the life and ministry of Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, the great Princeton Seminary professor. One of the most remarkable passages in…

archivist 16 February, 2015

February 15: Van Horn on WSC Q. 6

STUDIES IN THE WESTMINSTER SHORTER CATECHISM by Rev. Leonard Van Horn Q. 6. — How many persons are there in the Godhead? A. — There are three persons in the…

archivist 15 February, 2015

February 14: James Scrimgeour [1757-1825]

James Scrimgeour was born in the year 1757 in the vicinity of Edinburgh, Scotland. His mother, a member of the Secession Church, was known for her remarkable intelligence and piety,…

davidtmyers 14 February, 2015

February 13: Warrior Presbytery Established (1972)

Warrior Presbytery Leaves the Southern Presbyterian Church [text from an article in The Southern Presbyterian, vol. 1, no. 2 (February 1973): Twenty-one churches and five ministers were dismissed, at their…

Wayne Sparkman 13 February, 2015

February 17: First Presbyterian, Gulfport, MS (org. 1899)

February 16: The Death of B.B. Warfield

February 15: Van Horn on WSC Q. 6

February 14: James Scrimgeour [1757-1825]

February 13: Warrior Presbytery Established (1972)

April 8: Rev. Charles Ware Stewart

April 2: The Last Time the General Synod Met

March 26: Death of Rev. Lapsley

March 7: The Ordination of Theron Hawkes