James was born to James and Elizabeth Blythe in recently established Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, October 28, 1765. According to W. B. Sprague in Annals of the American Pulpit, young James was receiving a...
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Robert H. Reid, 1821-1907
Robert Harden Reid was born July 17, 1821 near Moffattsville, Anderson County, South Carolina. His father Andrew was an elder for nearly fifty years in the Good Hope Presbyterian Church. His mother’s name was Mary...
The Churchliness of Calvinism, Stuart Robinson
The transcription that follows is the text of a paper originally delivered by Stuart Robinson to the First General Presbyterian Council that convened in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1877. Robinson represented the United...
A Note on Presbytery Meetings and Minutes
Presbytery meetings of the past followed dockets that were built around a general framework or order of events that were noted in the minutes. Minutes were not a transcription of all that was said during the...
William Richmond Smith, The Middle Brother
William Richmond Smith was born May 10, 1752 in Pequea, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to minister Robert Smith and Elizabeth (Blair) Smith. He was one of seven children, two of which died in infancy, two became...
Samuel Stanhope Smith, Princeton College President
The image of Samuel Stanhope Smith shows him in his later years. Archibald Alexander described his impressions of Dr. Smith when they first met at an earlier time in his tenure at Princeton College. I had met Dr. Samuel...
