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The Pseudo-Scientific View of Miracles

Defends biblical miracles against pseudo‑scientific reinterpretation, arguing miracles suspend natural law to prove God's personal intervention and validate revelation.
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The Walnut Street Church Case

Two essays: one on the movement for women's civil and ecclesiastical enfranchisement; another a legal defense of Watson v. Jones arguing civil courts should defer where church tribunals have jurisdiction.
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A History of the United States of America

Preface and table of contents of Howison’s 1892 Student's History of the United States — a concise school textbook surveying colonization, Revolution, presidencies, democracy, and providence.
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The Astronomical Argument Against Christianity

Refutes the 'astronomical argument' that a vast cosmos undermines Christianity, arguing immensity and countless worlds do not negate God's providence or the Gospel. A reasoned apologetic defense.
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The Supernatural in the Scriptures

Defends the supernatural claims of Scripture, arguing that positive evidence and reason outweigh skeptical objections; miracles and the church's spread support revelation.
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The Northern General Assembly [1888]

Defends miracles over evolution as proof of redemptive revelation and human fall. Reports the 1888 Northern General Assembly on missions, temperance, freedmen, and proposed church union.
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What Persecutions I Endured

Devotional commentary reconciling Christ's words about peace and conflict. Argues Christ gives inward peace amid worldly tribulation and calls believers to faithful warfare under His rule.
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The Northern Assembly [1890]

Inaugural address on Christian apologetics and a report on the 1890 General Assembly defending the Westminster Confession and Calvinist doctrine against revision.
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Reply to Mr. Simmons

Argues that Christ's person and his miracles must be understood together to establish his divinity. Also records a sharp General Assembly dispute over a committee's report and Board practices.
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The Nature of Saving Faith

A sermon defining saving faith as rooted in God's testimony, centered on Christ, and a living, active principle that manifests itself by love rather than mere intellectual assent.
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Our Theology in Its Developments

Argues Reformed (Westminster) theology forms humility, assurance, gratitude and undergirds Presbyterian polity—parity of ministry, lay authority, church independence.
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The Tree Known by Its Fruits

Defense of Reformed (Calvinist) theology—sovereignty, total depravity, election, vicarious atonement, efficacious grace and perseverance—and its impact on Westminster standards, Presbyterian polity, and simple worship.
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