January 17: Rev. Thomas Dwight Witherspoon

Thomas Dwight Witherspoon, D.D., LL.D., by Richard H. Collins, LL.D., LOUISVILLE, Ky. Rev. Thomas Dwight Witherspoon, D.D., LL.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Louisville, Ky., was born January 17th, 1886,…

November 3: Samuel M. Breckinridge

A Marked Influence in Ecclesiastical Matters by David T. Myers For the next two years, your two authors will feature a number of posts about the remarkable Breckinridge family, a…

October 16: Rev. William Buell Sprague

Today’s post is drawn from Alfred Nevin’s Encyclopedia of the Presbyterian Church (1884), p. 850: The Long Pastorate of a Great Pastor and Biographer William Buell Sprague was born in Andover,…

August 31: Honor Your Pastor

This Is How You Say Goodbye : Paying Due Respect to a Beloved Pastor. When the War ended in 1865, the Rev. Thomas D. Witherspoon answered a call to serve the…