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The Christian Monitor, Vol. 1–2 Index
Index to Vols. 1–2 of the Christian Monitor: concise entries for essays, sermons, missions, Bible societies, revivals, Sunday schools, obituaries, and ecclesiastical reports.
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The Christian Monitor, Vol. 2, No. 1 [Sept. 14, 1816]
Editor resumes The Christian Monitor, explains changes in publication, invites essays on education and literature, and urges zeal in evangelism amid reports of widespread revivals.
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The Christian Monitor, Vol. 2, No. 2 [Sept. 28, 1816]
Urges young men to value fortitude (steady moral firmness) over showy courage; resist temptation, practice temperance and diligence, and avoid excessive sleep and drunkenness.
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The Christian Monitor, Vol. 2, No. 3 [Oct. 12, 1816]
Commends Essays to Do Good and urges honest industry, frugality, and temperance instead of idleness and distilling grain. Views crop failures as divine chastening and calls for repentance.
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The Christian Monitor, Vol. 2, No. 4 [Oct. 26, 1816]
Christian Monitor urges benevolence over wealth-seeking and restless emigration. Recommends local institutions (agricultural societies, libraries, churches) and reports Presbytery ordinations and missions.
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The Christian Monitor, Vol. 2, No. 5 [Nov. 9, 1816]
Sermon proclaiming Christ crucified as the center of the gospel: the cross secures our justification, sanctification, and glorification, displaying God’s justice and mercy.
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The Christian Monitor, Vol. 2, No. 6 [Nov. 23, 1816]
Synod of Virginia reports revivals and increased piety in many churches yet a widespread ‘famine of the word’; urges missionaries, prayer, and renewed pastoral zeal. Includes eulogy for Rev. Charles H. Kennon.
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The Christian Monitor, Vol. 2, No. 7 [Dec. 7, 1816]
Synod of Virginia report urging rigorous theological education and ministerial qualifications: deep Scripture study, doctrine, pastoral piety, church history, and seminary funding measures.
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The Christian Monitor, Vol 2, No. 8 [Dec. 21, 1816]
Urgent 1816 essays urging reverent Sabbath observance, family worship, and warning against general neglect of religion; calls for prayer and evangelistic efforts to save souls.
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View of the State of Religion in the Churches Under the Care of the Synod of Virginia
Synod of Virginia reports general prosperity: awakenings, growth in prayer, catechizing, seminaries, and urgent missionary needs. Also includes a Jewish convert’s testimony.
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The Christian Monitor, Vol. 2, No. 10 [Jan. 18, 1817]
1816 Christian Monitor: Richmond bill of mortality and a believer’s death testimony, followed by a moral essay condemning domestic slavery and urging urgent reform.
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The Christian Monitor, Vol. 2, No. 11 [Feb. 1, 1817]
An 1817 Christian Monitor piece warns against vain visits, gossip, and dogmatism; urges charity, guarded speech, and self-examination. Also notes a reported revival of card-playing.
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The Christian Monitor, Vol. 2, No. 12 [Feb. 15, 1817]
An 1817 plea calling Christians to brotherly love and unity across denominations, rejecting sectarian bigotry and urging cooperative gospel work and mutual aid.
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The Christian Monitor, Vol. 2, No. 13 [Mar. 1, 1817]
Reports revivals in New England and New York with many conversions and renewed church covenants. Also summarizes the American Bible Society’s officers, auxiliaries, and Bible distribution plans.
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The Christian Monitor, Vol. 2, No. 14 [Mar. 15, 1817]
Winchester Presbytery’s pastoral letter urges ruling elders to attend church courts and faithfully discharge duties, and exhorts professing Christians to personal piety and diligent Bible reading.
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The Christian Monitor, Vol. 2, No. 16 [Apr. 12, 1817]
Argues that only a sincere, experiential profession of faith (by parents and individuals) should qualify for baptism; criticizes lax, broad administration and appeals to Acts and confessional standards.
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The Christian Monitor, Vol. 2, No. 17 [Apr. 26, 1817]
Review of R.C. Maturin’s tragedy ‘Bertram’. Praises its poetic power but condemns its immoral depiction of passionate heroes, adultery, and the misrepresentation of female virtue.
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The Christian Monitor, Vol. 2, No. 18 [May 10, 1817]
1817 Richmond piece laments Virginia’s decline in learning, lost libraries, and untrained professionals; calls for a revival of education. Also reports new Sunday schools and a funeral sermon on faith.
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