January 9: The Auburn Affirmation (1924)
The Root of the Presbyterian Apostasy? When church historians evaluate the history of American Presbyterianism, the publication of the “Auburn Affirmation” will stand out in importance like the nailing of…
December 23: J.R.W. Sloane’s Review of Van Dyke’s Sermon
Many 19th-century Presbyterians opposed the practice of slavery. Reformed Presbyterians, while comparatively small in number as a denomination, were notable for being uniformly and resolutely opposed to it. The…
July 17: Beriah Green [1795-1874]
Things For All Men To Do. The following few paragraphs, below, form the opening portion of a discourse by Beriah Green, Jr. [1795-1874]. A graduate of Middlebury College, in Vermont,…
June 1: The Ecclesiastical Trial of Dr. J. Gresham Machen
What follows is a reproduction of a news clipping from an unidentified paper, providing a contemporary account of the ecclesiastical trial of Dr. J. Gresham Machen in 1935. The…
April 3: Rev. Matthew Hill
Come Over and Help Us The first two Presbyterian ministers to come to the middle parts of the American colonies were Francis Doughty and Matthew Hill. The former had immigrated from…
