27 April 2015 A.D. LONDON: Westminster Assembly in the Jerusalem Chamber of the Westminster Abbey
27 April 2015 A.D. LONDON: Westminster Assembly in the Jerusalem Chamber of the Westminster Abbey Archivist. “April 27: The Jerusalem Chamber.” This Day in U.S. Presbyterian History. 27 Apr 2015. http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2015/04/april-27-3/ . Accessed 27 Apr 2015. April 27: The Jerusalem Chamber This Most Venerable But Perishing Pile of Stones For whatever reason, the 200th anniversary of the Westminster Assembly, in 1843, did not garner all that much attention. The 250th anniversary, by comparison, was a much bigger event, widely observed by Presbyterians around the globe. So it was that on this day, April 27th in 1897 that Dr. William Henry Wirt brought before the Presbytery of East Hanover, as it convened in the First Presbyterian church of Richmond, VA, a message titled “ The Westminster Assembly: The Events Leading Up to It, Personnel of the Body, and Its Method of Work .” From that address, we excerpt here an interesting bit of background on the hi...