November 5: Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
Our time is short today, and we find sufficient reason to remind ourselves of a post well worth reviewing: Birth of a Giant. Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield was born on this…
October 17: Feed the Children.
The following plaintive appeared on the pages of a Presbyterian newspaper in October of 1879, exhorting both pastors and parents to pay better attention to the spiritual nurture of the…
March 16: Young Theologians
From a small collection of juvenile literature at the PCA Historical Center, the following artwork is from a Scottish publication titled THE MORNING WATCH, dated 1910. The caption reads: “These…
February 23: Birth of Ichabod Smith Spencer
Here was a case of a child raised without regard to religion. His parents were decent enough by the world’s standards, but they were not Christians. Nonetheless, God called him.…
November 25: Parliament Orders Printing of Shorter Catechism (1647)
“The ripest fruit of the Assembly’s thought and experience.” It was on this day, November 25th, a Thursday in 1647, that the British House of Commons ordered the printing of the Shorter Catechism, composed…
