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...
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B. B. Warfield, Thomas Witherow, and Presbyterian Polity
In 1889, Thomas Witherow, a Presbyterian minister in Ireland, published, The Form of the Christian Temple: Being a Treatise on the Constitution of the New Testament Church, to promote and defend Presbyterianism as the...
Matthew Henry, Presbyterian Minister and Bible Commentator
Matthew was born prematurely October 18, 1662, at Broad Oak, Flintshire, to Katharine and Philip Henry (1631-1696). His mother was the only child of Daniel Matthews; his father was the minister of the Worthenbury Church...
Robert Dick Wilson, Man of Many Languages
Robert Dick Wilson was born to Anna Graham (Dick) and Andrew Wilkins Wilson February 5, 1856 in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Andrew was a successful local merchant. Robert was taught to read by his mother before he began...
The Theological Transition of Harriet Beecher Stowe
The name Harriet Beecher Stowe brings to mind an influential book in American history, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Whether President Lincoln’s comment when meeting the author is true or apocryphal, “You are the little lady...
A Year in Greenville, South Carolina, 1893
Several years ago I read John C. Waugh’s The Class of 1846: From West Point to Appomattox, 1994, and then at the time of the Y2K event—the change of millennium from 1999 to 2000 A.D.—I read two historical books making...
