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Extracts from Annual Reports

1921 report on Presbyterian Home Missions: expansion among immigrant communities, evangelistic outreach, and severe financial strain. Urgent call to prioritize and support domestic missions.
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Business and Religion

Reports new General Assembly Training School correspondence courses and argues business and religion are inseparable, urging Christian integrity in money, tithing, and stewardship.
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A Dangerous “Ism”

Warns against Spiritualism as a demonic counterfeit of Christian revelation and urges adherence to Scripture. Also summarizes Dr. Speer's reports on missions in Japan and China.
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Christianizing Christendom: Home Mission Study

1919 Presbyterian study urging 'Christianizing Christendom' by strengthening home missions, balancing home and foreign obligations, and mobilizing church cooperation for postwar spiritual and social renewal.
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The Task That Challenges

1917 Presbyterian treatise urging coordinated American Home Missions: scope, demographics, evangelism, church planting, immigration, rural work, and the role of women in the cause.
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The Country Church

Report on the country church's decline—rural depopulation, tenant farming, absentee pastors—and a call for sacrificial evangelistic pastors and organized rural ministry.
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The New South and Home Missions

Laymen's Missionary Movement launches a new monthly, calls for prayer for peace amid WWI, and profiles the American South as a strategic domestic mission field with social challenges.
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The Training of Home Missionaries

1913 essay urging trained, specialized leadership for Home Missions amid immigration and urban change; recommends seminaries, fellowships, and practical training schools.
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A Reminiscence [of Dr. James Woodrow]

Reminiscences praise Dr. James Woodrow's orthodox defense of Scripture, his position that science and revelation do not contradict, and his powerful, lasting influence on students and church life.
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The Relation of Calvin and Calvinism to Missions

Examines Calvin's influence on missions, arguing Calvinism shaped theology, civic institutions, and missionary zeal that laid foundations for worldwide Protestant evangelization.
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Mission Work Among the Indians

1909 Lake Mohonk report on Presbyterian mission work among Native Americans: schools (Haskell), outcomes, leaders like Silas Bacon, challenges of disease, land issues, and vocational training.
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Home Missions, the Supreme Need of the Hour

Argues that Home Missions are the Presbyterian Church's supreme need: evangelize America to save the world, responding to industrial growth and social change with renewed missionary zeal.
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The Fifth Horseman, and Other Sermons

Sermons by Robert H. Morris exploring Revelation's horsemen, presenting Christ as the triumphant 'Fifth Horseman' who conquers war, famine, and death. Includes reflection on modern preaching.
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Edward Dafydd Morris, ‘49

Yale Alumni Weekly (Dec 24, 1915) reports moving crew practice to the Housatonic, advocates 'higher vocational' university education, and includes alumni obituaries and reunion notes.

The Class of 1852: A Memorial

Auburn Seminary report: students' summer urban and pioneer ministries and social scholarships; a memorial of the Class of 1852 honoring alumni pastoral and missionary service.
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The Final Faith

Collection of early 20th-century Christian essays and poems urging humble, reverent living after trial, critiquing national manners and church inertia, and calling for missionary reform.
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Lane

Encyclopedic entries profiling American theological seminaries (Auburn, Bloomfield, Lane, Lincoln, McCormick): founding, faculty, curricula, denominational ties, and growth.
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