July 2: John Newton, Missionary to India
Pioneer Translator Among Presbyterians We all know and love the John Newton of “Amazing Grace” fame, but this John Newton, while named after that beloved minister, was a Presbyterian missionary…
May 30: Louisa
This is one of those days where few Presbyterian events seem to have happened. In a previous year we wrote of how John and Louisa Lowrie set sail for the…
May 13: Francis Blanchard Hodge
In Following the Lord, He Followed His Brothers Francis Blanchard Hodge was the seventh child of Dr. Charles Hodge and his wife Sarah, and was born on October 24, 1838,…
January 5: The Place of Preaching
It was on this day, January 5, 1990, that the Rev. Dr. Robert Gibson Rayburn died. Dr. Rayburn had most notably served as the first president of the Covenant Theological…
May 30: John Lowrie
Behind a Frowning Providence William Cowper’s great hymn, “God moves in a mysterious way,” has a verse in it which says, “Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust…