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Whose Faith Follow

A memorial tribute to J. Gresham Machen, honoring his leadership in defending Reformed doctrine, founding Westminster Seminary and the Presbyterian Church of America, and his faithful witness to the end.
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Inconsistently Good Sermons

Editorial opposes the proposed 'Child Labor Amendment' as an attack on family and constitutional liberty. Book review praises Vander Meulen's creed-sermons but faults doctrinal gaps.
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Why Separation Was Necessary

Announces and defends the 1936 formation of The Presbyterian Church of America, arguing separation was necessary because Modernism denied inerrancy, the virgin birth, resurrection, and the atonement.
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An Indictment of the Social Gospel

Editorial argues apologetics and evangelism are mutually inclusive and essential. R. B. Kuiper indicts the Social Gospel for minimizing sin, denying providence, and favoring collectivism.
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Compromising the Authority of the Bible

Editorial and address defending the Bible's supreme authority against modernism, mysticism, and Romanist claims. Urges the League's students to maintain vigorous evangelical apologetics.
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The Function of the Chair of Practical Theology

A 1933 Presbyterian journal defending the Westminster Confession against Modernism, urging robust supernatural preaching and faithful church government. Includes a devotional on Matthew 28:20.
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The Popularity of Jesus

1932 Presbyterian essays defending external, supernatural authority against evolution, naturalism and rationalism. Kuiper contrasts the popular Jesus with the rejected, crucified Christ.
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Just What Is Christianity?

Advocates rational apologetics and argues Christianity is heart-based obedience — not hypocrisy, mere forms, or legalism — affirming creeds and worship in spirit and truth.
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What Is Truth? A Sermon

1931 Presbyterian journal defending Christ's bodily resurrection as essential to Christianity and featuring R.B. Kuiper's sermon on Pilate's question, 'What is truth?', urging reliance on divine revelation.
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As to Being Reformed

A forceful appeal to American Calvinists to remain or become soundly Reformed; Kuiper recounts denominational experience and defends Calvinist doctrines (predestination, common grace).
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Medical Handbook

A 1913 medical handbook for Alaska schoolteachers providing practical guidance on first aid, common diseases, drug preparations, dosages, infant care, ventilation, quarantine, and sanitation.
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Report on Health Conditions Among the Natives of Alaska

1913 U.S. Bureau of Education survey documents high tuberculosis, trachoma, and syphilis rates and poor sanitation among Alaskan natives, causing population decline. Recommends hospitals, nurses, and hygiene education.
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“Carrying On” at Home

Presbyterian Missionary Survey: reports on home and foreign missions (Czecho‑Slovaks), Christian education and Sunday‑school work, with a devotional poem reflecting Heb.1:1–2.
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Fellow Heirs of Our Protestant Heritage

Overview urging vigorous home and foreign missions: urban and immigrant outreach (Slavic communities), Sunday schools, city missions, and the evangelization of Jews.
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Foreigners in Virginia

May 1914 Missionary Survey summarizes home and foreign missions, highlighting outreach to Bohemian and Slovak immigrants in Virginia and urging dedicated evangelists and local church cooperation.
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James Hall Mason Knox, 1824–1903

Biography of Rev. James H. M. Knox (1824–1903), Presbyterian minister and Lafayette College president noted for piety, administrative skill, pastoral care, and long church service.

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