Well, let's pick up our story of part two of Christian publishing, and our tour begins in 1930.

In that year, Samuel Craig and J. Gressam-Machin founded Presbyterian and Reformed.

They first published a 24-page paper magazine called Christianity Today.

The subtitle ran a Presbyterian Journal devoted to stating, defending, and furthering the gospel in the modern world.

It ran until 1949. The first book they published was by Oswald T. Alice,

the five books of Moses in 1943.

His initials are OT, and he was an OT professor

at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Then he went with Machen in 1929 in the founding of Westminster.

Well, R.C. Sproles' first book on the Apostles' Creed titled The Symbol was published in 1973 by P&R.

Across the Pond in 1957, Jack Callum and Ian Murray founded the Banner of Truth Trust.

Ian Murray was an assistant minister to Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones at Westminster Chapel.

In 1955, Murray was the first editor of the Banner magazine, and then in 57 they started the trust to promote God-centered Christianity, to offer affordable reprints of classic texts, books by the Protestant reformers and the English Puritans.

And they also published books by contemporary authors. The very first book they published was Thomas Watson's The Body of Divinity.

Well, let's give the Dutch some attention. As a student at Calvin Theological Seminary,

William B. Erdman's senior began selling books to pay his tuition bills in 1902. By 1911,

he founded a company to sell books, and in 1922, the business became

the William B. Erdman's publishing company. The initial volumes were printed in Dutch,

but eventually he relented and started publishing titles in English. Early Erdman's was known

for high academic standards, and they

would publish academic commentaries and theological reference books.

Herman Baker came to the United States in 1925. As a teenager, he worked in his uncle's bookstore.

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