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“When the time had arrived to seek out some place to spend the night, Sheffey would seek a home where he could find those comforts which his heart and body craved. He enjoyed sleeping in a bed with a white counterpane over the covers. At the home of Aurelius Vest, where he spent his last days and where he was Read more...
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Samuel Davies was Patrick Henry’s pastor growing up. Marker: Just west was Polegreen Church’s 18th-century glebe, a farm and residence provided for the benefit of its pastor. Polegreen was a congregation of Presbyterians dissenting from Virginia’s established Church of England. The Rev. Samuel Davies (1723-1761), a leader of the Great Awakening in the South, was Polegreen’s first pastor (1748-1759). A Read more...
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Samuel Davies was the pastor of Patrick Henry, and later President of Princeton University, before he died at age 37. Text: Just to the north stands Briery Church, organized in 1755 following the missionary work of Presbyterian minister Samuel Davies. The first church was built about 1760 and was replaced in 1824. The present Gothic Revival church was built about Read more...
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From Judson, the Pioneer: “HI, boys, there goes the Bell Rock alarm! Come on !” The boys of Maiden, Massachusetts, in the old Colonial days were always listening for the Bell Rock alarm. It was a church bell, but it wasn’t in a church tower. It was swung in a wooden frame on a rounding ledge of rock, where now Read more...
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From Willard Barbery in 1950: It was Mrs. Suiter who showed us the sheepskin, in the Davidson home, formerly used by Bro. Sheffey and made mention of in another place in these writings. That sheepskin was given to Rev. Peter Rayburn Suiter, local preacher in the Methodist church for many years in Bland county and an associate of the itinerant preacher. Bro. Sheffey Read more...
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Built in 2011, this memorial, and others like it around the country, honors the legacy of the Four Chaplains: During the early morning hours of February 3, 1943, the USAT Dorchester was part of a convoy of six ships heading for Greenland when an enemy u-boat attacked, firing a torpedo into the ship’s midsection. The Dorchester quickly began taking on Read more...
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SunTimes: She recounted that Jefferson at first doubted Beamer because he was so calm. She explained, “Todd loved his life but he knew that his life was much more than his 32 years on this Earth. His soul was secure, even when his body wasn’t, because Jesus was his savior.” The children of Todd and Lisa Beamer, David, Drew and Read more...
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Inscription: B.B. McKinney was born here on July 22, 1886. He was a gospel song writer, evangelistic singer, teacher, and music editor. He composed 149 songs and was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1982. Some of his best-loved hymns are “The Nail Scarred Hand,” “Let Others See Jesus in You,” “Satisfied With Jesus,” “Speak to My Read more...
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This site used to be Memorial Presbyterian Church, but according to PA Historic Preservation: Unfortunately, the size of the congregation declined in the late 20th century and eventual decreased to twenty-five members. The Memorial Church was formally dissolved by action of the Presbytery of Lackawanna on May 19, 2009. In 2011 the Presbytery of Lackawanna sold the property to King’s College for $125,000. Read more...
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Moody Church: Many a lost soul has been won to the Lord by wandering over the cobblestones of memory’s lane and hearing again the sweet hymns of the church. When the roll is finally called up yonder, Avis B. Christiansen will find stars in her crown never dreamed of. As poetess and hymn writer, her inspired words have brought easing Read more...
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Read Erromango: The Martyrs’ Isle online Discerning History: In the morning of November 20, 1839, John Williams prepared to land on the island of Erromango. In his Bible was later found a small scrap of paper upon which he had written this text from the lips of the Lord Jesus, “I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.” Read more...
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Image Credit: George Baxter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Voyage to the rock – read an account Archaeology of Christianity in Vanuatu (including map of the last day of Williams From Wikipedia: Most of the Williamses’ missionary work, and their delivery of a cultural message, was very successful and they became famed in Congregational circles. However, in November Read more...
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From Wikipedia: The Livingstone Memorial built in 1899 marks the spot where missionary explorer David Livingstone died on 1 May 1873 in Chief Chitambo’s village at Ilala near the edge of the Bangweulu Swamps in Zambia. His heart was buried there under a mpundu (also called mvula) tree by his loyal attendants Chuma, Suza Mniasere and Vchopere, before they departed for the coast carrying his body.[1] In their Read more...
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Wikipedia: The Statue of David Livingstone on the Zimbabwe side of the Victoria Falls is erected towards Devil’s Cataract in the western bank of the falls. The statue has an inscription that states that David Livingstone visited the falls in 1851 when he documented his first impression on the beauty of the waterfalls during his first encounter when he named the falls after Queen Victoria.[2][3] There has been two Read more...