The appointment of Sylvester Larned as evangelist to New Orleans: On the 15th of July, 1817, Mr. Larned was licensed and ordained by the Presbytery of New York. This ordination was clearly to the office of evangelist, which he was in the fullest sense of the word. … [Later] we...

Charles Hodge, one of America’s most educated men of the 19th century and a prominent theologian of old Princeton, devoted much of his time to his denomination’s foreign missions. As documented by his son, in The Life of Charles Hodge: He became a member of the Board of Foreign Missions...

What do you do when you’re alone? What do you think, feel, daydream about, and desire? What do you read, watch, and listen to? Do you tend your soul and guard your heart in solitude? Owen observed that time spent alone can be either your best time or your worst....

Keller on an essential component of planting lasting churches in cities: When you try to reach a city, he said, you’ll encounter four kinds of people. “Commuters” are just in the city to get something done—get a degree or a credential, earn a first million, and move away. “Survivors” are...

In explaining how the power of the gospel is shown in its conquering of many worldly foes in the past, Owen has to face an objection. If the past fruit of the gospel is a demonstration of its power, how come “it is not still accompanied with the same power,...