January 17: Rev. T.D. Witherspoon [1836-1898]
A Living Fire on the Altar of his Heart Thomas Dwight Witherspoon was born at Greensboro, Alabama, January 17, 1836, educated at the famous academy of Professor Henry Tutwiler, in Green…
July 18: Rev. Jacob Jones Janeway [1774-1858]
There is much that can be learned from funeral sermons for great men, particularly when delivered by great men. Of course, all men are sinners, and none are great in…
July 14: Rev. Richard Webster [1811-1856]
Biographer of the Mother Church Richard Webster was born in Albany, New York, on July 14, 1811, the youngest son of Charles R. And Cynthia (Steele) Webster. He died at…
June 14: Thomas Smyth [1808-1873]
Bring the Books! Thomas Smyth was born on June 14, 1808 in Belfast, Ireland, the sixth son of Samuel and Ann Magee Smith. Thomas’s father was English, a prosperous grocer…
June 5: Old School/New School Division of the PCUSA
The Mother of All Schisms in Presbyterianism Old School Presbyterians . . . New School Presbyterians. You were either one or the other in the early to mid-nineteenth century in…
