February 7: The Rev. George Smith Boardman, D.D.

Our candidates for this date are few, and information is sparse. Today’s entry comes largely from Alfred Nevin’s Encyclopedia of the Presbyterian Church, with some additional details provided by the Biographical…

September 16: How God May Use Adversity

Stepping outside of American Presbyterian history for a moment, here is an interesting interpretation as to how persecution worked to the advance of the Church in at least one chapter…

August 31: “Hath God Said?”

Gordon Haddon Clark was born on this day, August 31st, in 1902. We have written of him previously, but today present a sermon delivered by Dr. Clark in 1947. This message…

June 22: The Sanquhar Declaration

Do you own the Sanquhar Declaration?  That question would be asked again and again by the authorities in the land of Scotland in the latter part of the seventeenth century…

October 20: Come Before Winter

Come Before Winter by Clarence Macartney [1879–1957] “Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me…. Do thy diligence to come before winter” (2 Timothy 4:9, 21) Napoleon Bonaparte and the…