Grantian Florilegium

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a man of extraordinary wit, intellect, and insight. He was a prolific writer who engaged the leading intellec...

  The pitch of the stall was glorious Though the straw was dusty and old Though it blew bitter and cold The wind sang wi...

There has fallen on earth for a token A god too great for the sky. He has burst out of all things and broken The bounds of eternit...

"This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our...

The first few winters in the New World were treacherous for the pioneer American colonists. At the fledgling Plymouth colony, settlers di...

Martin of Tours was a bishop who was martyred on this day in 397.   Also on this day in 655, Martin of Umbria was marty...

O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold ento...

On this day in 1907, the entire nation of the Netherlands celebrated the seventieth birthday of Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920). A national p...

"Can the liberties of anyone or any people or any nation be secure, when we have removed the conviction that those liberties a...

Son of a Lutheran pastor, Samuel Rodigast (1649-1708) attended the University of Jena, then joined the philosophy faculty there. In 1680, ...