American Board – This Day in Presbyterian History

September 9: The Earth Filled with the Glory of the Lord

In troublesome times, draw ever nearer to your Lord and King, for His promise will, in due time, be fulfilled. Excerpted from The American National Preacher, Sermon 205, preached at Baltimore,…

archivist 9 September, 2017

October 24: Founding of the Western Foreign Missionary Society (1831)

In writing up this post, it will be important to note that this was an independent foreign missionary society. Thus, when the PCUSA issued the Mandate of 1934, they…

archivist 24 October, 2016

October 10: The Trail of Tears

An Injustice Which Found No Excuse Related here is a brief account of Presbyterian missions among the Cherokee and Choctaw Indians, just prior to and immediately following the grave injustice…

archivist 10 October, 2015

December 13: John Bailey Adger

The following obituary from The Presbyterian Quarterly [April 1899 (Volume 13, Number 2), pages 354-355] marked the death of the Rev. John Bailey Adger:— John Bailey Adger, D.D., died in Pendleton,…

archivist 13 December, 2014

January 3: John Bailey Adger

Despite all good intentions, the following is a reprise from this date last year. But we're on the mend and expect to have new content tomorrow. I trust you won't…

archivist 3 January, 2014