September 20: Archibald Alexander
He Seemed But a Little Boy It was only a year before that Archibald Alexander had been taken under care of the Presbytery of Lexington, Virginia. He was young and…
September 23: William Holmes McGuffey
This Day in Presbyterian History: Home School Education in the Nineteenth Century They are still being used today! McGuffey Readers, that is. But what an important force they have had from the…
September 19: The Standards of the Presbyterian Church
This Day in Presbyterian History: The Westminster Standards are the Standards of the Presbyterian Church We have already considered the meeting which took place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which stopped an impending schism in…
September 17: Jonathan Dickinson
This Day in Presbyterian History: A Potential Schism Halted by a Compromise Initially there was no real problem with the written standards for the Presbyterian Church in America. Ministerial students were…
September 15: WSC Q. 87
This Day in Presbyterian History: The Practice of Repentance With little action by Presbyterians in America on this day, we turn on this day, September 15, to Shorter Catechism No. 87…