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...
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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...
Ellison A. Smyth, Presbyterian Entrepreneur
One of the difficulties faced when writing biographies about church personalities from the past is locating information about the service of members that were not ministers. Sources regarding ministers are fairly...
Review, D.G. Hart, Benjamin Franklin, Cultural Protestant
Biographies of American historical personalities often prove disappointing for Christians anticipating serious consideration of the subject’s theological commitments within the religious environment of the era. For the...
Moses D. Hoge, Virginia Minister
Moses Drury Hoge was the minister of Second Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Virginia, for two months shy of fifty-four years. Continuing in the same church for over half a century is a tenure that very few pastors of any...
Jacob J. Janeway, A Covenant with God
Jacob Jones was born in New York, November 20, 1774, to George and Effie (Ten Eyck) Janeway. The family were members of the Reformed Dutch Church. The Dutch established a colony in 1609 a portion of which included what...
