August 10: A Sermon on Fasting (1804)
In 1804, Great Britain and her colonies were under threat of attack by French forces. As a call went out for a season of prayer and fasting, the Rev. Archibald…
July 31: The Lord’s Galley Slave
Were you, the reader, aware that the man of the hour in Scotland, John Knox, once rowed a galley ship? No, it wasn't for exercise. No, it wasn't for some…
July 27: Donald Cargill
The Lone Star of the Covenant Challenged by his land owner father to become a minister, Donald Cargill resisted the suggestion at the first. His inclination was not the gospel…
July 23: Jenny Geddes (1637)
Our post today is closely adapted from the work by Wm. P. Breed titled Jenny Geddes, or Presbyterianism and Its Great Conflict with Depositism (1869). To read W.P. Breed's book, click here.…
July 21: Rev. John Livingstone [1603-1672]
One biographical entry lists under John Livingstone's name that of "revivalist preacher." And there is no doubt, as John Howie put it in The Scots Worthies, that there has been…