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...
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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...
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...
