January 4: A Day of Fasting and Humiliation
Fast Day Sermons; or The Pulpit on the State of the Country is a collection of sermons which were delivered on January 4, 1861, in answer to a proclamation from…
January 3: John Bailey Adger
Reading from the Minutes of the Synod of South Carolina in 1899, we have the following Memorial for the Rev. Dr. John Bailey Adger, freely edited here for our purposes:…
January 2: Rev. John Rosbrugh
The First American Chaplain to Die in the Service of his Country. An Irish immigrant, John Rosbrugh was born in 1714, came to the colonies in 1735 with his brother…
January 1: Death of J. Gresham Machen (1937)
Many have wondered if J. Gresham Machen couldn't have taken better care of himself and remained on the scene to further help the struggling conservative Presbyterian movement along in its…
December 31: So Great a Cloud of Witnesses
Goodby 2012; Hello 2013 — First of all, let this writer commend you if you have reached this day after having begun on January 1. You have read through the history…
