As the new year 2019 approaches this post includes three brief pieces located in Sterling’s Southern Orator Containing Standard Lectures in Prose and Poetry for Declamation and Recitation in Schools and Colleges...
Archive - 2018
bwaughWesley F. Martin, 1850-1915
One aspect of Presbyterian Church history is that many members of the denomination tended to be professionals such as accountants, doctors, academics, lawyers, and similar vocations. Obviously, there is nothing wrong...
Robert McCachren, 1798-1885
Robert was born the second son of John and Isabella Cunningham McCachren at the Forks of Brandywine, Chester County, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1798. When he was ten years old his father died leaving his mother with...
Thanksgiving, 2018
In celebration of Thanksgiving 2018 readers are referred also to the post for 2017, “The First Thanksgiving, Edward Winslow, 1621.” The post for last year has not taken into account the CSPAN3 episode of...
Thomas Creigh, 1808-1880
Thomas was born September 9, 1808, to Dr. John and Eleanor Dunbar Creigh the seventh child in a family that would have six sons and four daughters. His paternal ancestors were Protestant Germans who fled their home in...
J. Gresham Machen, France 1918 Part 5, War Ends
If you have not read the previous articles in this series you may want to do so by visiting the first post, “J. Gresham Machen, France 1918, Part 1″ and then continue through the sequence of articles using the...
Robert Scotty Hastings, 1913-2003
When we met I was told that everyone called him Scotty because of his homeland. He looked the part with his thick white hair, matching bushy moustache, glint in his eyes, and ever-present smile. If he had been Irish, I...
Education & Supply of Presbyterian Ministers
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15 Paul’s instruction to Timothy should be familiar because it is a key...
Archibald Alexander & William Graham
In the summer of 1843, seminary professor Archibald Alexander made a lengthy trip by train from his residence on the campus of Princeton Theological Seminary to his place of birth in Lexington, Virginia. Alexander was a...
John Leyburn, 1814-1893
John was born in Lexington, Virginia, April 25, 1814, to John and Jane McDowell Leyburn. The infant’s paternal grandparents were George and Abigail Leyburn who were descended from English ancestors that had relocated to...