HT: Dan Graves 1720 John Gill is solemnly ordained as a Baptist pastor in Horsleydown in a lengthy public ceremony which involves much prayer and soul searching. Gill will remain at Horsleydown for 51 years and gain recognition as a great controversialist, sharply critical of Wesley’s theology because it placed the decision to follow Christ…
Today, March 21st, is the last day of this term but everything is already in place for the summer term classes which begin on Monday 15th April. Here is a summary overview programme, and details of individual subjects can be found on the NEWS page of the College website.
Dear fellow labourer in the work of the gospel. I have been turning over the content of this letter for several weeks because I want to make sure I get the tone and wording as right as I possibly can, but this is a burden that has been weighing on my heart for some time…
1730 HT: Dan Graves “O happy day that fixed my choice on Thee, my Savior and my God” begins Philip Doddridge’s most popular hymn. He made that happy choice early in life, thanks in part to his mother: Sent to a boarding school, he continued to grow in faith. Both parents died when he was…
1805 HT: Dan Graves When France suppressed its Protestant Huguenots, they scattered around the world. Many wound up in the young United States. Several presidents, the first chief justice of the United States (John Jay) and many other famous men boasted Huguenot blood. George Washington Bethune, born on this day, March 18, 1805 in New York City,…
