PCA Historical Center| G. Aiken Taylor Award: Announcing a Call for Papers-- The Taylor Award in Church History is now open to seminary students from any of the NAPARC denominations, and the Award for the best paper on American Presbyterian history is now $500.00. For contest details, click here. This year's deadline for submission of papers is June 5th, 2008. Posted: Four articles by Dr. Wm. Stanford Reid: Carl Trueman On the Value of History: "The Nature of the Atonement--Why it is Necessarily Vicarious," by W.L. Scott, Esq. (1870) "Our Faculty - Westminster Theological Seminary" - An early promotional brochure prepared by The Student Committee on Publications, Westminster Students' Association, 1931. "Groundless Attacks in the Field of Oriental Scholarship," by Dr. Robert Dick Wilson, Ph.D. A short article for the lay reader, originally published in The Bible Student and Teacher, volume 1, number 6 (June 1904): 356-360. This brief article was recently discovered when the PCA Historical Center obtained a bound copy of this periodical. Westminster Seminary and the Reformed Faith, by the Rev. Samuel G. Craig, D.D. [excerpted from Christianity Today [original series], 5.5 (October 1934): 108-112 and 5.6 (November 1934): 131-136. Afraid of a Shadow,"From a Discourse by a Young Scotchman, Delivered at Torquay." [excerpted from Christianity Today (Philadelphia: Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing), 8.9 (January 1938): 185.] "How to Conduct a Summer Bible School" by Dr. Abraham Lance Lathem, D.D. This brief article by Dr. Lathem explains in short order the essentials of conducting this renowned children's ministry. Take special note of the program's intensive curriculum, as described at the end of the file. I hope at some later time to properly tell the story of Dr. Lathem. He served for many years as the Senior Pastor of Third Presbyterian Church in Chester, PA, and he is particularly noteworthy as mentor to the Rev. Francis Schaeffer, who learned the principles of this children's ministry under Dr. Lathem before taking a pastorate in St. Louis. Rev. Schaeffer took what he had learned from Lathem and employed it in the ministry of Children for Christ in St. Louis, while serving as pastor of the First Bible Presbyterian Church. Later, after the end of World War II, Schaeffer was led to move to Huemoz, Switzerland with the intention of setting up chapters of Children for Christ throughout post-war Europe. In the course of things, the planned children's ministry turned instead into something greater, with the formation of L'Abri in 1955. |
Posted: Tables of Content for Christianity Today [original series, 1930-1949]. |
Focus on Collections at the PCA Historical Center : |
| Organizational Records : Children for Christ, Inc. The Children for Christ organization began as a ministry of the First Bible Presbyterian Church of St. Louis. As the ministry grew, the church was led to call the Rev. Francis A. Schaeffer as pastor, in part to head up this ministry. And as God provided, the ministry grew, and it was the decision to take the Children for Christ work to post-war Europe that led to the Schaeffer's being based in Switzerland, and providentially, to the founding of L'Abri. |
| Manuscript Collections : Papers of C. John Miller The PCA Historical Center has acquired the papers of Dr. C. John Miller who was a professor at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia from 1966-1980, founding pastor of New Life Presbyterian Church, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, and founding director of World Harvest Missions. The collection consists of 13 cubic feet of documents, with notable strengths in subjects such as evangelism, missions, and pastoral theology. |
| Holdings :
Wade Cothran Smith holdings "Holdings," for lack of a better term, designate materials by an individual or an organization that have been gathered by the Center's staff, where the primary archival collection(s) may be housed at some other institution. Wade C. Smith was a noted evangelist and author in the old Southern Presbyterian Church. He is probably most remembered for his cartoon drawings and "Little Jetts" series of books. |
| "We need the Jesus of history to account for the Christianity of history. And we need both the Jesus of history and the Christianity of history to account for the history of the world...To be rid of this Jesus we must be rid of this Christianity, and to be rid of this Christianity we must be rid of the world-history which has grown out of it. We must have the Christianity of history and the Jesus of history, or we leave the world that exists, and as it exists, unaccounted for." [B.B. Warfield, The Lord of Glory, p. 304.] |
"NEEDED: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE," by William Stanford Reid (1953) : |
| Recent Accessions : The Papers of Dr. Carl W. Bogue, Jr. The PCA Historical Center was blessed last week with the donation of the Papers of the Rev. Dr. Carl W. Bogue, Jr. The Bogues were able to visit St. Louis and made this important donation at that time. Originally ordained in the UPCUSA, Dr. Bogue transferred his credentials into the PCA in 1975 and he has only recently retired as pastor of Faith Presbyterian Church in Akron, OH. As well as having served this one congregation for over 30 years, Dr. Bogue has been an active participant over the years at both the Presbytery and General Assembly levels of the denomination. The collection totals some 6 cubic feet of documents, and arrangement and description of the collection will hopefully begin later this summer. Our goal is to have the collection available to researchers early in 2008. |
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Recent Postings - Sermons and Discourses : Mountains and Why We Love Them, by Dr. J. Gresham Machen, with rare background materials. |
Recent Accessions and Current News :
Posted : Rev. John B. Adger's Report on "The General Assembly at New Orleans" (PCUS, 1877).
Read the PCA Historical Center's latest newsletter, w/lead article on the founding of the first
African Presbyterian Church (1807).
Posted : "How to Conduct a Summer Bible School," by Dr. Abraham Lance Lathem, D.D.
Posted : James H. Thornwell's Report of the General Assembly (PCUSA) of 1847.
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The Historical Center of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is a ministry of the PCA Stated Clerk's Office, with facilities located in St. Louis, Missouri on the campus of Covenant Theological Seminary. Our mission is to document the story of the conservative Presbyterian movement of the 20th & 21st centuries. The concept of the "continuing church" dates back to the Scottish Presbyterian churches of the 17th century and reflects the effort to maintain a faithful, Bible-believing Church, true to the Lordship of Christ. The PCA Historical Center currently hold the records of six conservative Presbyterian denominations, as well as manuscript collections for over 100 individuals connected with these Churches.
Last update : Saturday, 5 April 2008.
The Historical Center of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is a ministry of the PCA Stated Clerk's Office, with facilities located in St. Louis, Missouri on the campus of Covenant Theological Seminary. Our mission is to document the story of the conservative Presbyterian movement of the 20th & 21st centuries. The concept of the "continuing church" dates back to the Scottish Presbyterian churches of the 17th century and reflects the effort to maintain a faithful, Bible-believing Church, true to the Lordship of Christ. The PCA Historical Center currently hold the records of six conservative Presbyterian denominations, as well as manuscript collections for over 100 individuals connected with these Churches.
Last update : Saturday, 5 April 2008.