October 3: Dr. I.S.K. Axon [1813-1891]

http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/georgiabooks/pdfs/gb5189.pdf, p. 17ff. One of the most beloved pastors of the Midway Church was Dr. I.S.K. Axson, the grandfather of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Dr. Axson was born in Charleston, South…

August 10: Rev. Daniel Baker

A Personal Revival Needed Every Christian worker should have an experience like that of Daniel Baker. In the thirty-ninth year of his life and ministry, the twelfth year of his pastoral…

August 4: Givens Brown Strickler [1840-1913]

[excerpted from The St. Louis Presbyterian, 31.27 (10 September 1896): 435.]             Dr. Strickler was born at Strickler’s Springs, Rockbridge County, Virginia, April 25, 1840. On his father’s side he…

February 22: Rev. Francis D. Cummins, D.D.

Bethel's Second Pastor, 1782 – 1789 Bethel Presbyterian Church, in Clover, South Carolina, ranks as one of the oldest churches in the PCA, having been founded in 1764. Francis D.…

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…