Welcome to Ulster Worldly, a blog about the history of Presbyterianism. Many of these stories come from my own family, many others come from my own denomination.
In my research on Presbyterian history, I’ve come across these titles I’d like to read but cannot find available anywhere. If anyone knows of copies available, please leave a comment below.
The recent solar eclipse reminded my dad that his grandfather had seen the 1919 eclipse in Congo. My great grandfather recounts the story in his memoir:
One day in mid-afternoon I was teaching a Bible class in the grass-roofed chapel. The roof was rather low at the edges, so most of our light was reflected from the ground. It grew darker and darker, until we could not see to read. I told the students we had better get home before the storm broke. We stepped outside, but to our great surprise there was no storm. But it continued to grow darker and darker. There was a total eclipse of the sun.
Mr. Stilz got a photograph showing a perfect corona. Some days later I started on my homeward journey, but I was to go out of my way to visit Bibanga station. I arrived there in four or five days. A few days out from Lusambo a village chief asked me in all seriousness whether it was true, as he had heard, that a white man reached up his hand, and covered the sun.
There are a number of free ebooks on the history of Presbyterianism. Here are some of them:
History of the Presbyterian Church in the state of Kentucky: with a preliminary sketch of the churches in the valley of Virginia by Robert Davidson (1808-1876)
History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America: With Sketches of All Her Ministry, Congregations, Missions, Institutions, Publications, Etc by William Melancthon Glasgow (1856-1909)
History of the Associate Reformed Synod of the South, to which is prefixed a history of the Associate Presbyterian and Reformed Presbyterian Churches by Robert Lathan (1829-1896)
A history of the Presbyterian church in America : from its origin until the year 1760 by Richard Webster (1811-1856) and Cortlandt Van Rensselaer (1808-1860)
