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Listen to an audio narrative of the Ashtabula Train Disaster and learn more about Phillip Bliss in front of the hospital that was built as a result of the horrific disaster. Hymns by Philip Bliss found in Great Hymns of the Faith: #127 – Hallelujah, What a Savior! #197 – Hallelujah, ‘Tis Done! #203 – Whosoever Will #205 – Once Read more...
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Born in Kellyville, Texas, Stuart Hamblen made his way to Hollywood. A “singing cowboy” – he wrote the hit song “I won’t go hunting Jake (but I’ll go chasing women)” that placed #3 in the US for 1950. At Billy Graham’s 1949 Los Angeles Crusade, the “original juvenile delinquent” and alcoholic was converted, quit doing alcohol commercials, gambling, and horse Read more...
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Frederick Muhlenberg House, located in the historic village of Trappe, preserves the memory of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, a figure whose life bridged both ministry and the early political development of the United States. The house, constructed in the mid-18th century, reflects the modest yet purposeful lifestyle of a colonial pastor and offers insight into the religious and civic life of Read more...
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Lottie Moon’s Birthplace stands as an important historical site connected to the life and legacy of Lottie Moon, one of the most influential missionaries in Southern Baptist history. Located in rural Albemarle County near Scottsville, the property preserves the early environment that helped shape Moon’s character, convictions, and lifelong commitment to Christian service. Charlotte Digges “Lottie” Moon was born on Read more...
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Who is John Harvard? “After God had carried us safely to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God’s worship, and settled the city government; one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Read more...
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New England’s First Fruits is one of the earliest printed documents in colonial American history, offering a rare and valuable glimpse into the spiritual and educational priorities of early New England settlers. Published in 1643 in London, this modest pamphlet was primarily intended to inform supporters in England about the progress of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, particularly in the areas Read more...
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First American theologian and philosopher. Born in 1703, son of Timothy Edwards. He graduated from Yale at age 17, was pastor in Bolton, tutor at Yale, missionary at Stockbridge, and in 1758 became pres. of Princeton University where he died. His grandson, Aaron Burr, became 3rd vice president of U. S. ♦ _____ ♦ The birthplace of Jonathan Edwards Read more...
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Inscription The Reverend Robert Sayers Sheffey (1820-1902), although one of a kind as to style and personality, was a Methodist Circuit Rider in the classic frontier tradition. Celebrated for the intensity of his faith and prayer, as well as for his eccentricities, Sheffey’s authority was recognized throughout this region. He is buried nearby, in Wesley Chapel Cemetery, beside his second Read more...
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“I am sorry for the preacher that has got so low down in his theology that he is trying to establish the fact that there is no hell. I know of men trying to establish the fact that there is no hell. A gentleman said to me a few days ago that the fact was nearly established. I said to Read more...
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The birthplace of Ira David Sankey stands as a quiet but meaningful landmark in the history of American gospel music. Located in Edinburgh, this modest home reflects the humble beginnings of a man whose voice would one day carry the message of the gospel across continents. Ira D. Sankey was born on August 28, 1840, into a devout Methodist family. Read more...
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Inscription: Near this spot was the boyhood home of Rev. Bob Jones, (1884-1968), D.D., L.L.D., internationally known evangelist and founder of Bob Jones University. The eleventh child of W. Alexander and Georgia Creel Jones, he was three months old when the family moved to Brannon Stand in 1884, where he lived until his father’s death in 1900. Four years after Read more...
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And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also. (Numbers 20:11) In late 1863, the Confederate States of America needed a place to hold Union prisoners of war. Though the Confederates would not win the war, they had captured over Read more...
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Inscription Birthplace of Carry A. Nation With hatchet in hand, this famous Kentuckian harassed saloon owners across U.S. Four miles from here on Carry Nation Rd. is house where she was born, 1846; lived there five years and in other Ky. towns before moving west. After Kansas banned liquor, Carry began crusade there in 1899, smashing furniture, mirrors, bottles. Home Read more...
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Preacher “One of the most useful qualifications of a good minister is that he have a lively sense of religion upon his own heart.” John Witherspoon Born in Gifford, Scotland, in 1723, Witherspoon was educated at the University of Edinburgh, completing his divinity studies in 1743. The son of a clergyman, he became pastor of the Presbyterian congregation in Beith Read more...
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The history and impact of the The Gideons International and their widely recognized “Gideon Bibles” represent one of the most enduring efforts to place Scripture directly into everyday life. For more than a century, this organization has been known for its simple but far-reaching mission: to distribute copies of the Bible, particularly the New Testament, in places where people are Read more...
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The story of the “Beecher Bibles” and the later shortfall of the Social Gospel movement reflects two distinct but related attempts to address moral crisis in American life. Both arose from a desire to confront injustice, yet they differed sharply in method and long-term impact. The term “Beecher Bibles” is associated with Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent nineteenth-century minister and Read more...
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The first English-language Bible printed in America, commonly known as the Aitken Bible, stands as a remarkable achievement in the early history of the United States. Produced in 1782 by Robert Aitken in Philadelphia, this edition of the Scriptures was born out of both necessity and conviction during the years following the American Revolution. Before independence, most English Bibles used Read more...
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The relationship between Abraham Lincoln and religion has long been a subject of careful study and thoughtful debate. Unlike many American leaders of his time, Lincoln was not formally affiliated with a church, yet his language, convictions, and leadership were deeply shaped by religious ideas, particularly those rooted in the Bible. Lincoln was born in 1809 in Hardin County, a Read more...
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William Jennings Bryan began practicing law in Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1883. After graduating from law school at Union College of Law (now part of Northwestern University), Bryan moved to Jacksonville, where he opened a law practice. There he partnered with a local attorney and quickly became involved in both legal work and public speaking. His time in Jacksonville was formative. Read more...
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The story of William Jennings Bryan and his famous “Cross of Gold” speech is most often associated with the dramatic scene at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Yet, like many great speeches, its power was not born in a single moment. Bryan had developed and delivered earlier versions of his argument in towns across the Midwest, including a Read more...