Jean Ribaut (or Ribault) was born about 1520 in the Normandy coastal village of Dieppe. He was a Huguenot as was Admiral of France Gaspard de Coligny (1519-1572) who ordered Ribaut to lead an expedition to explore the...
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Alexander T. Rankin, Missionary to Kansas Territory & Denver
Alexander Taylor Rankin was born December 4, 1803 to Richard and Isabella (Steel) Rankin in Dandridge, Tennessee. His parents were originally from Augusta County, Virginia and had moved for better opportunities in east...
James F. Armstrong, Chaplain & Peacetime Pastor
Chaplain Armstrong made his way to North Carolina with the Second Maryland marching nearly 500 miles from Philadelphia to camp at Wilcox’s Ironworks just south of what is currently Siler City. He wrote William Churchill...
Collecting the Offering Discreetly
The pictures that follow this introduction show what I call “The Left Hand Doesn’t Know What the Right Hand is Doing Collection Box” (i.e. Matthew 6:3). It is modeled after the original collection box I saw in the...
John B. Romeyn, Dutch-American Presbyterian
John Brodhead was born November 8, 1777 in Marbletown, New York, the only son of Dirick and Elizabeth (Brodhead) Romeyn. Dirick was pastor of the united Reformed Dutch congregations of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh in...
B. B Warfield’s Premature Obituary
It may seem unlikely but seminary professor B.B. Warfield has one thing in common with America’s humorist, social commentator, and author, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. The familiar quip from...
