The Southern Presbyterians Series
Here is the collection of the Southern Presbyterians series.
Part 1
Part 2
The Scots Come to the South
Francis Makemie wasn’t the only Scot from that small Irish town. King James the First, about fifty years before, had given that land to many Scottish settlers. They were honest and good in their dealings; they worshipped their God, grew lovely fruits, vegetables, and flowers, and kept out of trouble. But when Charles the Second came to the throne, short…
Part 3
The Apostle to Virginia
“I am a son of prayer, like my namesake, Samuel the prophet, and my mother called me Samuel, because, she said,'I have asked him of the Lord.’ This early dedication to God has always been a strong inducement to me to devote myself to Him as a personal act, and the most important blessings of my life I have looked upon as immedia…
Part 4
Hugh McAden's Missionary Journeys
Like an Old Testament prophet, the young minister appeared of out the whirlwind, and rode across the Potomac river into Virginia. It was the summer of 1755, and Hugh McAden had been licensed to preach the Gospel by the same presbytery that Samuel Davies was licensed in.
Part 5
Alexander Craighead and the Seven Churches
The fiery Scot, born and raised in North Ireland, crossed the Atlantic and was ordained in the Synod of Philadelphia in 1735. Shortly thereafter, Craighead met George Whitefield on his missionary journey to the American colonies. The two men came to admire each other as they shared such a love and warmth for their fellow man for they desired everyone to…
Part 6
William Graham and Classical Education
The Hanover Presbytery in the years preceding the Revolutionary War was on the frontlines for the fight for religious liberty. Their desire was for the free exercise of worship, and adjacently they desired a free education, bound by no one. The presbytery wanted to establish “a public school for the liberal education of youth.”