Religious Melancholy
Reviews a Church of Scotland mission to the Jews and a study of "religious melancholy"—moral insanity, its diagnosis, and implications for ministers and physicians.
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Religious Melancholy
Robert Burns; as a Poet, and as a Man
Review critiques works on human nature and aesthetics, rejecting Tyler's claim that nature's beauty derives from association with woman. Argues beauty is an innate faculty shaped by intellect and morals.
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Prison Discipline
1849 Princeton Review piece on Christian-driven prison reform: history of penitentiary systems (Pennsylvania vs Auburn), Howard's influence, and debates over solitary confinement.
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Professor Bachman on the Unity of the Human Race
Review of Bachman's defense of the unity of the human race, arguing Scripture and science support common origin and universal sin and salvation.
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Harrison on the English Language
Reviews McCrie’s edition of Robert Blair’s autobiography and Harrison’s study of the English language; commends scholarship but criticizes speculative origins-of-language hypotheses.
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Review of Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity
Review of Owen's edition and of UVA lectures defending Christianity. Praises learned apologetics while urging stronger engagement with contemporary science and philosophy.
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The Christian Philosophy of Revolution
Argues that human history advances by cycles of "overturning" under divine providence; Christianity and Christ's coming are the revolutionary agents preparing humanity's final restoration.
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Considerations on a Call to the Ministry
Two essays: Christian parents must train children (born in sin) with godly instruction; a 'call' to ministry is God's designation via gifts, discerned by prayer, the Spirit and reason.
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Letters on the True Relations of Church and State to Schools and Colleges
Letters debating church-state relations to schools and colleges. Maclean defends independent, trustee‑run Presbyterian colleges and warns against direct synodical control and partisan meddling.
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The Princeton Text Book in Rhetoric
1859 Princeton textbook on rhetoric for college students. Outlines principles of conviction, persuasion, style, and elocution, covering argument, arrangement, and delivery.
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July 24, 1882 Letter Regarding the Execution of John Brown
Selections from the Southern Historical Society Papers (1885): a Confederate veterans' address on Gregg's Brigade and correspondence plus an affidavit disputing Northern accounts of John Brown's imprisonment and execution.
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Our Foreign Missionary Policy
Argues that the General Assembly should hold exclusive, defined jurisdiction over foreign missions—organizing churches, appointing and disciplining missionaries, and amending the Constitution to enable vigorous overseas evangelism.
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Ordination to the Ministry of Christ
1894 Presbyterian Quarterly pieces on the rise of Romanism and a robust defense of formal ordination, arguing preaching belongs to ordained ministers and critiquing lay evangelism.
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The Objections to African Colonization Stated and Answered
Defense of the American Colonization Society, arguing colonization to Liberia is a feasible Christian philanthropic remedy to slavery that promotes education, agriculture, and religion.
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The Family a Religious Institution: Or Heaven the Model of the Christian Family
1840 tract arguing the Christian family is a divinely established religious institution. Urges parental duty, household worship and the family covenant (including infant baptism).
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Speeches of Mr. Hopkins of Northampton, on the Bill to Incorporate the College of the Holy Cross, in the City of Worcester
Hopkins defends the Massachusetts House's rejection of a Jesuit college charter, rebukes Brownson's review, and criticizes Catholic exclusivity and Protestant prejudice.
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The Period from the War of the Revolution to the Adoption of Measures for the Organization of the General Assembly, 1775–1786
1876 discourses on the Presbyterian Church during the American Revolution: clergy, denominational life, and the struggle for religious liberty and church–state relations.
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Opening of the Synod of Dort
Survey of the opening of the Synod of Dort (early 17th c.), recounting the Arminius–Gomar debate over predestination, the church–state entanglement, and Dutch Reformed church history.
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