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A Manual of Devotion for Soldiers and Sailors

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.
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Dewey’s Controversial Discourses

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.
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Discoveries in the Region of Nineveh

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.
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Frank Harper: Or, The Country-Boy in Town

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.
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Howison’s History of Virginia

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.
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Love to Christ the Motive of Missions

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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The American Mechanic and Working Man

1847 essays urging American mechanics to find dignity in honest labor, home pleasures, education, music, and temperance; warns against tavern vice and advocates self-improvement.
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Thoughts on Family Worship

A Presbyterian defense and guide to daily family worship—its warrant, history, and benefits for parents, children, households, church, and commonwealth. Includes practical directions for domestic devotions.
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Life of Hegel

Reviews of Bingham’s history of the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands and Rosenkranz’s Life of Hegel, outlining Hegel’s upbringing, studies, travels, and philosophical development.
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Teaching a Science: The Teacher an Artist

Reviews religious instruction for enslaved Black people and critiques public schooling. Argues for teachers’ independence and the necessity of religion in education.
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Turrettin’s Institutes

Review of Turrettin’s Institutes and Francis Turrettini’s life, emphasizing his Reformed theology, scholarly influence, and opposition to Popery, Socinianism, and Arminianism.
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Beecher and Wilson on Baptism

Critical review of Beecher and Wilson on the baptism controversy—mode (immersion vs. sprinkling), biblical exegesis and patristic evidence, with Dr. Carson’s rejoinders.
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Hymn to Christ

1849 Presbyterian essays defending justification by faith and imputed righteousness against Finney’s works-righteousness. Also meditations on death, heaven, and progressive sanctification.
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Review of The Life of Ashbel Green

Review and excerpts of Ashbel Green’s autobiography, tracing his Presbyterian ministry, role in founding institutions, Revolutionary-era recollections, and spiritual formation.
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The History of Catechizing

Historical survey of catechizing: early church catechumens, Augustine’s methods, catechists, and baptismal instruction shaping catechetical practice.
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Trees

Reprints official papers on Virginia’s 1651 surrender. Also contains an essay praising trees’ cultural and aesthetic worth, and a favorable review of Macaulay’s History of England.
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Books and Business

Advice for businessmen to simplify libraries, select a few excellent books, and read them deeply to maximize scarce time. Includes a reminiscence of John Robinson and a note on aesthetics.
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Education Among Merchants

Travel reminiscence of Princeton (1801) followed by essays critiquing merchants’ neglect of liberal education and urging freedom in literary expression and composition.
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