November 19: John L. Burns
Two Heroes of Gettysburg Attend a Presbyterian Church The High Water Mark of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg, had been fought that July of 1863. Attending just four months later in…
November 14: J.U.S. Toms
John Ulverstone Selwyn Toms [26 October 1878 - 14 November 1973] Excerpted from the Minutes of the Bible Presbyterian Synod, 1974, pp. 38-39. A Memorial Resolution, #7. on the death…
November 12: Rev. Henry W. Coray
The following account comes from the pages of Christianity Today [original series, published by Samuel Craig, 1930-49], recounting something of the opposition encountered by missionaries trying to be obedient to the Scriptures…
October 20: A Monument in Praise to What God Has Done
A Colossal Monument for a Spiritual Giant Standing twenty feet tall and weighing thousands of pounds, and located in the nation’s second-largest city park (Fairmount Park, in Philadelphia, comprises 4,618…
October 12: T.D. Witherspoon on the Distinctive Doctrines of Presbyterianism (1883)
"The Distinctive Doctrines and Polity of Presbyterianism," is the title of an address delivered by the Rev. Thomas Dwight Witherspoon, on the occasion of the Joint Centennial celebration of the…