October 22: William Swan Plumer
An Old School Presbyterian Ministers in both North and South William Swan Plumer was not a name which I had recognized until someone gave me a commentary written by him. It…
September 24: Machen on Secret Trials
“The judicatories of the church shall ordinarily sit with open doors. In every case involving a charge of heresy the judicatory shall be without power to sit with closed doors.…
August 15: Old School Divides North & South
Ideas & Actions Have Consequences On this day, August 15th, in 1861, a group of pastors and ruling elders met in Atlanta to plan the division of a new denomination, splitting…
August 12: Alexander Inaugurated at Princeton (1812)
What Made Princeton Strong? Archibald Alexander served as moderator of the nineteenth General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. With his departing sermon at the following year's Assembly,…
August 8: Dr. Harold Samuel Laird
It has been my experience that there are just a few men who, when spoken of, are remembered with the utmost respect and veneration. Dr. Harold Samuel Laird was one…