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The Presbyterial Critic and Bi-Monthly Review, Vol. 2

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1856 Presbyterian review examines a financial crisis in church Boards (missions, education, publication), debating systematic benevolence, visiting agents, and causes of funding shortfalls.

The Presbyterial Critic and Monthly Review, Vol. 1

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1855 Presbyterian journal calling for a forum on church order, polity, and ecclesiology. Urges careful study of judicatory duties, seminaries, and adapting Presbyterianism to American growth.

Report on the Diaconate

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1884 General Assembly report arguing the diaconate is a distinct office from elders/ministers, responsible beyond care of the poor for temporal affairs and relations to church agencies.

A Pacific Appeal to Christians

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1861 circular urging Southern Christians to pursue calm, Christian forbearance, and faithful civic action to avert disunion, preserve the Union, and protect Protestant interests.

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, D.D.

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Encyclopedia of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (Northern and Southern), edited by Alfred Nevin. Includes biographical sketches, church history, seminary and institutional entries.

Ashbel Green, D.D., LL.D.

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Encyclopedic entries on the Presbyterian Church in the United States, including northern and southern assemblies, historical notes, and biographical sketches of ministers and elders.

Ashbel Green

Biography of Ashbel Green: Princeton president, pastor, editor, and Presbyterian leader who advanced theological education, missions, and revival.

Ashbel Green, D.D.

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Biographical and historical notices of distinguished American clergy — missionary anecdotes, autobiographical sketches, and accounts of ministerial service (e.g., Badger, Ashbel Green).

Introduction to Shepard K. Kollock’s Pastoral Reminiscences

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A mid-19th-century volume of pastoral reminiscences offering case studies and conversion narratives to instruct and comfort ministers and the devout. Practical casuistry for pastoral care.

Discourses Commemorative of the Life and Work of Charles Hodge

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Funeral address for Rev. Charles Hodge, recounting his life, Princeton seminary ministry, major writings (Systematic Theology, reviews), and wide influence as a Presbyterian theologian.

Memorial of Cortlandt Van Rensselaer

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Memorial letters and a funeral address honor Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, praising his faithful service to the Presbyterian Church and Board of Education. They commend his piety, charity, and steadfast ministry.

Discussions of Philosophical Questions

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Girardeau’s collected essays on metaphysics and consciousness, defending the Scottish school (Hamilton), critiquing Spencer and agnosticism, and exploring philosophy’s relation to theology.

Memoir of Rev. Charles Beatty

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Sketches of Rev. Charles Beatty and colleagues, their ministries, missions, and roles in the 1739–41 revival. Includes Jonathan Dickinson's letters on awakenings in Newark and Elizabethtown.

The Remedy for Duelling

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Lyman Beecher's 1806 sermon condemns duelling as murder and a national sin, urging church discipline and civic measures (withholding votes) to abolish the practice.

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