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title: 'June 1861 Letter to Gardiner Spring'
type: pdf
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authors:
- 'John Newton Waddel'
date: 1861-06-13
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Northern-Southern Presbyterian Division'
- 'Church-State Relations'
- 'United States'
scriptures:
- 'Daniel 9'
- 'Jeremiah 17'
- 'Matthew 26'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/waddel-1861-june-1861-letter-to-gardiner-spring
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# June 1861 Letter to Gardiner Spring

Richmond 1861 Presbyterian paper urges devotion, reports printing New Testaments for soldiers, and debates a Southern Presbyterian convention amid secession and war.

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