September 15: The First Great Awakening

It was on this day, September 15, in 1748, that a petition was brought before the Presbytery of Boston, seek to organize a church in Newburyport, Massachusetts, "after the manner…

February 17: Death of Lyman H. Atwater

Two Decades A Congregationalist Pastor; Three Decades A Presbyterian Professor. In the winter of 1831, in New Haven, Connecticut, and on the campus of what was then Yale College, there…