Memorial Sermon for Frederick Douglass (1895)
Eulogic sermon honoring Frederick Douglass. Praises his character, intellect, and journey from slavery to freedom, and urges pure, honorable leadership for the race.
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Memorial Sermon for Frederick Douglass (1895)
Some Things That Lie Across the Pathway of Our Progress
1897 Hampton Conference report urging Black education, land ownership, agricultural and trade training, and a reformatory. Emphasizes unity, self-development, and practical measures for homes and work.
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The Negro
Four sermons by Rev. Francis J. Grimke confronting post‑Reconstruction racial oppression, press and pulpit hostility, and Southern lawlessness; urging perseverance, prayer, and defense of Negro civil rights.
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The Negro Will Never Acquiesce as Long as He Lives
Reports of racial unrest: the Sixth Virginia (Black) regiment arrested after protest over white officers; lynchings, murders and the Wilmington massacre highlight violent injustice.
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Recommendations of the Committee on Religion and Ethics
Proceedings of the 1899 Hampton Negro Conference urging cooperative public-private education, manual training, temperance, moral home-training, practical preaching, and labor/business reform.
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The World’s Edition of the Great Presbyterian Conflict
Account and review of the 1874 Presbyterian heresy trial of Prof. David Swing: charges by Dr. Patton, published sermons, the courtroom arguments, and the Presbytery’s acquittal.
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The Right of a Prosecutor to Appeal
Argues that a prosecuting Presbyterian minister has the right to appeal an acquittal. Appeals preserve church purity and follow ecclesiastical, not common-law, principles.
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The Underlying Principles of Infidelity
Report of Dr. Patton’s paper diagnosing modern unbelief and urging robust apologetics: faith as personal trust in Christ, the Bible’s authority, and responses to criticism.
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Retribution, in Relation to the Justice, Goodness and Purpose of God
Defends the biblical doctrine of eternal punishment, arguing God’s justice and goodness are compatible with endless retribution and answering Universalist objections.
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Pastors, Theology, and the Age
Affirms the dignity and necessity of theology and calls pastors to defend doctrine. Ministers must engage science and philosophy, uphold confessions, and resist heresies (perfectionism, Socinianism).
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The Final Philosophy
Review of Dr. Shields’ The Final Philosophy: it challenges the portrayed war between science and religion, defends the necessity of miracles for Christianity, and urges careful evidential apologetics.
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The Origin of Theism
Lyman Beecher on the nature and extent of the atonement, paired with an essay on the origin of theism surveying development, revelation, inference, intuition, and anthropological accounts.
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The Place of Philosophy in the Theological Curriculum
Argues for a formal place for philosophy in theological curricula to strengthen apologetics; defends objective argument alongside the Spirit’s witness. Calls for fair, rigorous scholarly debate.
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Notes from Lectures on Theistic Conception of the Universe
Lecture notes examining theistic conceptions (poly-, pan-, mono-theism) versus atheism and surveying origins of belief: development, revelation, inference, and intuition.
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On the Education of Ministers
A rebuttal to President Eliot arguing Protestant ministerial education need not be radically changed. Considers how press, politics, and science have affected ministers’ role and training.
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The Dogmatic Aspect of Pentateuchal Criticism
Two essays: one opposes a premillennial literal millennium while upholding a future personal Second Coming; the other surveys Pentateuchal higher criticism and its dogmatic implications for Scripture and reason.
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Contemporary English Ethics
Reviews 18th-century poetry’s reputation and surveys contemporary English ethics, outlining conflicts between evolutionists, utilitarians, and intuitionalists.
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