Our Historic Mission: An Address Delivered Before the Eunomian and Phi-Mu Societies of La Grange Synodical College, July 7, 1858

1858 address by B. M. Palmer exploring American national character and the philosophy of history. He asks if the U.S. is a ‘historic people’ and outlines four central problems: political, ecclesiastic, intellectual, economic.

Benjamin Morgan Palmer was an American Presbyterian minister and theologian who led First Presbyterian Church in New Orleans for nearly half a century and served as the first Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States when it formed in 1861. Recognized as one of the most powerful and eloquent preachers of his generation, Palmer’s pulpit ministry drew wide attention throughout the South.

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