20 September 1791 A.D. (Rev. Dr. Prof.) Archibald Alexander Preaches a Successful Licensure Sermon to His Lexington Presbytery
20 September 1791 A.D. (Rev. Dr. Prof.) Archibald Alexander Preaches a Successful Licensure Sermon to His Lexington Presbytery Archivist. “September 20: Dr. Archibald Alexander.” This Day in Presbyterian History. 20 Sept 2014. http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2014/09/september-20-2// Accessed 20 Sept 2014. September 20: Dr. Archibald Alexander He Seemed But a Little Boy It was only a year before that Archibald Alexander had been taken under care of the Presbytery of Lexington, Virginia. He was young and extremely small in stature. In our day, such a move of spiritual oversight is usually granted by a Presbytery after it has heard your personal testimony, what God has done for you in Christ in your spiritual life, and an expression of your call to the ministry. In the eighteenth century however, it included all that, no doubt, and also a sermon preached before the presbytery. On that occasion in October of 179...