From the earliest days of the Presbyterian Church in Colonial America there was evangelistic work by ministers among their Indian neighbors. Through the formation of Philadelphia Presbytery, 1706, then the organization...
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bwaughPresbyterian Doctrine Briefly Stated, A. A. Hodge
The last article posted on Presbyterians of the Past was a biography of A. A. Hodge (1823-1886). This post provides a PDF of his pamphlet, Presbyterian Doctrine Briefly Stated, published by the Presbyterian Board of...
A. A. Hodge, 1823-1886
Archibald Alexander was born on July 18, 1823 to Charles and Sarah Bache Hodge in a frame house at the corner of Witherspoon and Main (Nassau Street) across from the Princeton College campus. He was named for Charles’s...
Flournoy Shepperson, 1883-1966
Flournoy was born to Joel Alexander and Lucetta Cheatham Shepperson in Columbus, Arkansas, January 10, 1883. His education included a Bachelor of Arts from Arkansas College, then he completed his ministerial studies in...
The Churchliness of Calvinism, Stuart Robinson
The transcription that follows is the text of a paper originally delivered by Stuart Robinson to the First General Presbyterian Council, which convened in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1877. Robinson had represented the...
Designing Churches—Entrance Doors
The entrance doors of churches are utilitarian devices that provide privacy and security while allowing passage from the outside of the building to the inside and vice-versa. They can be made of wood, fiberglass, steel...
Student Woes of J. W. Alexander
Having passed the annual event known as “spring break” in the world of education, the challenges on the academic calendar that will soon come to pass require burning the midnight oil, but more likely in this day is...
J. W. Alexander’s Concern for the Poor
Over the course of the three centuries of American church history there have been many controversies, practices, curiosities, divisions, and struggles. The subject of this article is a practice that was quite common in...
Stuart Robinson, 1814-1881
Is it a scowl of anger or grimace of pain that is on the face of Stuart Robinson? His appearance may very well be due to pain. When he was an infant his nurse was tossing him in the air, as adults sometimes do, and...
Review,
Bible Ordered Worship,
Terry L. Johnson
The way God is to be worshipped has been historically and continues to be a subject of debate among Christians. The Israelites worshipped the golden calf as a representation of God while Moses was speaking with him;...