Scottish Mission to the Jews
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Report of the 1839 Scottish Church deputation to inquire among Jews across Europe and Palestine, detailing Jewish conditions, obstacles to conversion, and missionary prospects.
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Scottish Mission to the Jews
The Life of Absalom
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A moral biography of Absalom, David’s son, recounting Amnon’s murder, Absalom’s exile, return, and treason—offering a warning about pride, vengeance, and ambition.
Baird’s Religion in America
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Reviews works on the Puritans, Milton, and American religion, focusing on church history, the voluntary principle, church–state relations, and evangelical influence.
Connection Between Philosophy and Revelation
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Essays and reviews exploring the relation of reason and revelation: philosophy aids scriptural interpretation but revelation remains primary; Bacon and hermeneutics are discussed.
Kidder’s Brazil
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Review of Daniel P. Kidder’s Brazil (1845): travel sketches covering Brazil’s geography, resources, commerce, ports, and cities, emphasizing Protestant missions, Jesuit history, and slavery.
Popular Objections to Calvinism
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A defense of Calvinism addressing common objections, arguing that doctrines of grace, predestination, and justification are biblical and upheld by Reformation confessions.
Poverty and Crime in Cities
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Review of studies on urban poverty and crime, focusing on M. Frégier’s analysis of Paris’s ‘dangerous classes.’ Examines causes—drunkenness, gambling, poor housing—and preventive remedies.
Religious Instruction of the Negroes
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Account of an 1845 Charleston meeting on religious instruction for enslaved Black people—surveys practices, denominational cooperation, and urges wider evangelism and schooling.
The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold
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Reviews of biographies of Isaac Milner and Thomas Arnold, highlighting Christian conviction, rigorous scholarship, and the centrality of Christian education and preaching.
Hopkins’s Evidences of Christianity
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Review of Mark Hopkins’s Lectures defending Christianity by internal (moral) evidences, debating the evidential role of miracles, reason, testimony, and the will in belief.
Introduction to Thoughts on Sacramental Occasions Extracted from the Diary of the Rev. Philip Doddridge, D.D. (1844)
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Introduction to Philip Doddridge’s Sacramental Meditations: selected diary meditations preparing for communion, emphasizing atonement, pastoral duty, prayer, and Christian assurance.
Parochial Schools
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Report on the 1846 General Assembly: debate over replacing ‘Bishop’ with ‘minister’ and a major dispute about parochial schools versus secular common schools and church-led instruction.
Report of Committee on Parochial Schools to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, May, 1846
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1846 report urging Presbyterian parochial schools to provide daily, doctrinal Christian education, modeled on Scottish parish schools to train youth and future ministers.
Review of Gardiner Spring, The Attraction of the Cross
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Review of Gardiner Spring’s The Attraction of the Cross, defending penal substitutionary atonement and orthodox justification. Argues the cross is central to Christian theology.
A Manual of Devotion for Soldiers and Sailors
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A 19th-century manual of devotion for soldiers and sailors. Contains public and private prayers, funeral services, occasional prayers, a catechism, and a selection of psalms and hymns.
Dewey’s Controversial Discourses
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A Trinitarian review of Orville Dewey’s Unitarian Discourses, critiquing his evasive treatments of the Trinity, atonement, election, human depravity, and eternal punishment. The reviewer defends orthodox/Calvinist positions.
Discoveries in the Region of Nineveh
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Review of Orville Dewey’s theological essays and a report on M. Botta’s Khorsabad (Nineveh) excavations. Describes Assyrian sculptures and cuneiform finds and their value for biblical history.
Frank Harper: Or, The Country-Boy in Town
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A country boy, Frank, confronts city temptations, ridicule, and danger but clings to prayer, Sunday-school influence, and resolves to resist sin and aid his family.
Howison’s History of Virginia
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Review of Howison’s History of Virginia, detailing early voyages, Roanoke encounters, Powhatan hospitality, and Captain John Smith’s adventures. Commends scholarship while noting earlier histories’ flaws.
Love to Christ the Motive of Missions
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Alexander teaches that personal love for Jesus—rooted in the covenant, the cross, and Christ’s mediatorial work—is the primary motive driving Christian missions and their progress.
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