While reviewing some old posts, I ran across this bit. This year, 2020, is the Centennial of Prohibition and the bit below shows how opponents and proponents of alcoholic beverages sometimes had convenient associations...
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John Witherspoon, Lecture Life and Works
Before reading this post, it is suggested that “Philadelphia Centennial, 1876, Presbyterians,” be read for background information. It had been a long and bumpy road to the Witherspoon statue unveiling with...
Catalog, Parker Society Series, English Reformation
The Parker Society was named for Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker (1504-1575) whose tenure extended from 1559 until his death during the reign of Elizabeth 1. It was quite an accomplishment to be a cleric during...
The Lion of Punjab, John H. Morrison
John Hunter was born June 29, 1806 to James and Eleanor (Thompson) Morrison in Wallkill Township, New York. James’s grandfather Morrison had emigrated from Scotland. John’s early studies were accomplished in...
John Calvin & Plagues
Pestilence, disease, epidemics, and plagues were ever-present dangers in sixteenth-century Europe. Cunningham and Grell have observed “that in every year between 1494 and 1649 plague was killing its thousands and tens...
Chicora College for Women
Up until roughly the end of the nineteenth century, Presbyterian and Reformed denominations in the United States opened a number of educational institutions. In South Carolina, Chicora College was one of several...
