Minister peter marshall biography

By Catherine Marshall

If you don't know this man called Peter, let me encourage you to meet him. Catherine Marshall's biography, A Man Called Peter is worth the read.

Peter Marshall was a Scots-American Presbyterian pastor who served as Chaplain of the Senate from 1947 until his early death (at 46) in 1949.

A Scotsman by birth, Marshall immigrated to the United States in 1927. Gospel patrons in a Georgia Sunday School class provided the financial help that enabled Peter to attend and graduate from Columbia Seminary. He pastored the Westminster Presbyterian Church from 1933 until his call to New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C.

in October 1937.

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Marshall began his ministry at the "The Church of the Presidents," at thirty-five years of age. In fact, he interviewed with the elders just one day following his marriage to Catherine Marshall (22 at the time).

Catherine Marshall's loving biography of her husband is honest, honoring, and revealing:

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