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Christian Missions and African Colonization

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Review of J. Leighton Wilson’s Christian Missions and African Colonization, surveying Western Africa, tribes, Liberia, and the slave trade while arguing that Christianity can precede civilization.

Wigfall’s Sermon Upon Dueling

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Sermon and essay denouncing duelling as murder and pagan ‘honour’, urging the Church and civil law to repudiate the practice, reform language, and enforce justice.

The American Board, and the Choctaw Mission

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Brief account of the Synod of Dort and a critique of the American Board for Foreign Missions. Praises its missionary legacy but condemns recent sectionalism and treatment of the Choctaw mission.

The General Assembly of 1860

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Report on the 1860 General Assembly: opening sermon on the ministry, debates over Boards and their reorganization, and the proper roles of ministers versus ruling elders in church government.

Explanatory Note

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A Southern Presbyterian Review piece on Fort Sumter and the Civil War examines the church’s relation to state authority, defends Southern Assembly delegates, and urges prayer and unity.

Motley’s Dutch Republic

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Calls ministerial candidates to personal service in foreign missions; reviews Motley’s Dutch Republic—commerce, civic liberty, and Reformation persecution.

The General Assembly of Columbia

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Report on the 1863 Presbyterian General Assembly: discusses slavery and religious instruction of Black people; debates oversight of ministerial education and provision for aged ministers.

The Northern General Assembly (O.S.) of 1866

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Presents practical benefits of infant baptism and critiques the 1866 Northern General Assembly for church–state entanglement, pro‑slavery decisions, and ecclesiastical overreach.

The General Assembly [of 1866] at Memphis

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Report on the 1866–67 General Assembly at Memphis: church relations to freedmen and a major revision of the Form of Government and Book of Discipline.

The Future of the Freedmen

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Critiques theatrical revival methods and documents the freedmen’s dire post‑emancipation plight—poverty, disease, religious decline, and the rise of untrained or political teachers.

The Reviewer Reviewed

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1868 Southern Presbyterian review defends the centrality of Christ’s atonement, critiques Barnes on the foundation of faith and slavery, and debates right and wrong and Bible interpretation.

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