June 24: Job Prudden
JOB PRUDDEN WAS the great-grandson of the Rev. Peter Prudden, whose ministry—in Hertfordshire, on the borders of Wales—was attended with uncommon success. Many good people followed him, when he sailed…
November 13: Dr. John Todd Edgar, D.D. [1792-1860]
When He Died, The Town Shut Down. John Todd Edgar, D. D., was born in Sussex county, Delaware, April 13th, 1792. His father removed to Kentucky in 1795. He was…
September 7: Rev. John Rowland
Church Doors Were Shut and Barns Were Opened Regrettably is did not take long for the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. to suffer dissention and schism. Its first Presbytery was…
July 17: Samuel Finley [1715-1766]
Injurious to Your Health It was downright unhealthy to be the president of the College of New Jersey (today’s Princeton University) in the opening years of that educational institution. In…
July 9: Rev. William Dean
Directed by Providence by Rev. David T. Myers Our Confessional Fathers in the Westminster Confession of Faith, chapter 5, section 1, would define “providence” with these words: “God the great…