David Wills was born in Mummasburg about five miles north-northwest of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, January 7, 1822. He received the Bachelor of Arts from Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tennessee. Tusculum was founded...
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Books for Visiting Charleston, South Carolina
While skimming titles on the shelves of one of the rare businesses known as a used bookstore last week, I came across a short section of South Carolina items. The spine garnering my attention was a slightly sunned copy...
William M. Paxton, Doctrinal Ministry of the Word
When B. B. Warfield delivered the memorial message for William M. Paxton in Miller Chapel at Princeton Seminary he said of his friend and colleague that “Dr. Paxton’s power always lay more in what he was than in what he...
William H. Fentress, An Extraordinary Man
Seminary education in the nineteenth century was challenging especially as developed and standardized by the first seminary of the Presbyterian Church established in Princeton, New Jersey, 1812. The curriculum included...
Polycarp, The Lord Has Done Me No Wrong
Smyrna was located about thirty miles north of Ephesus situated at the point of a vee-shaped inlet where the city of Izmir is in modern Turkey. It was a significant port at the time of Polycarp and was possibly the...
Review, For Me to Live is Christ: Life of Edward J. Young, Davis Young
It was common in the nineteenth century for family members to write biographies of their deceased kin. For example, The Life of Archibald Alexander, 1856, was edited by his eldest son J. W. Alexander; the Life of...
