BOOK DESCRIPTION

What would it have been like to sit under the preaching of the 18th century American Presbyterian pastors who had been trained at the Log College? The sermons in this volume, selected by Professor Archibald Alexander in the middle of the 19th century, answer that question. Designed to be a supplement to Alexander’s earlier biographical sketches of the Log College men, these pulpit orations show the God-focused, gospel-centered, truth-exalting, and practical nature of preaching in the earliest days of American Presbyterianism. An appendix on the history of the Log College by the Rev. Dr. Thomas Murphy examines the close relation of William Tennent’s school to Princeton Theological Seminary.

ENDORSEMENTS

 “We have much to learn from the Log College men. These sermons are soul-stirring reminders of the kind of preaching that the Lord used to draw many to Christ in a bygone age. It is a kind of preaching that is hardly heard today but needs to be rediscovered. My prayer is that the republication of these sermons will have the same effect as when they were reprinted by Archibald Alexander in the 19th century.”

— Dr. Jonathan L. Master

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Archibald Alexander (1772–1851) was one of the most significant Presbyterian ministers and educators of the nineteenth century. Born in Virginia, he studied theology under William Graham and pastored churches in Virginia and Pennsylvania. He served as the President of Hampden- Sydney College in Virginia from 1797–1806, and was a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey from 1812 until his death in 1851.