Henry’s Christian Antiquities
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Review condemning C.S. Henry’s abridgment of Bingham’s Christian Antiquities as misleading and poorly compiled. Criticizes errors on baptismal sponsors and early liturgy.
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Henry’s Christian Antiquities
Moral Aesthetics
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1852 essay on moral esthetics: nature’s beauty reveals God’s goodness and calls the soul to spiritual contemplation. It contrasts Christian interpretation of creation with pagan views.
National Literature, the Exponent of National Character
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Reviews John Owen’s critical edition and defends Protestantism and Scripture as the sole infallible rule, opposing Romanism. Argues national literature reveals a nation’s character through its writers.
Journal and Letters of the Rev. Henry Martyn, B.D.
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Review of Henry Martyn’s journals praising his missionary sacrifice, intense self-examination, and Protestant convictions. Celebrates the Bible’s cheering gospel and missionary devotion.
The Poetical Element of the Bible
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Report: Presbytery endorses separate congregations and instruction for coloured people. Essay: the Bible’s poetical element reveals God and suits human faculties.
The Zurich Letters
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Review of The Zurich Letters: examines the English Reformation’s mixed political and religious origins, its church government, and links with Continental Reformed theology.
The True Path: Or, The Young Man Invited to the Saviour
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A series of evangelical lectures inviting young men, especially students, to Christ. Emphasizes divine revelation, conversion, holy living, and pastoral preaching.
Casting Our Burden on the Lord
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Sermon urging the afflicted to cast their burdens on the Lord, accept God’s chastening, and trust Christ’s sustaining grace (psalms-55; hebrews-12; matthew-11).
God, the Giver of Victory and Peace: A Thanksgiving Sermon
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Rev. Joseph M. Atkinson’s 1862 Thanksgiving sermon (Raleigh) attributes Confederate victories to God’s providence and urges faith, gratitude, and dependence amid the war.
The Puritans
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Critical review of Samuel Hopkins’ The Puritans: faults Hopkins’ style and irreverence, defends Puritan character and Presbyterian role, linking their principles to Southern cause.
Female Education
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An 1866 Presbyterian essay arguing women’s education must prioritize moral and spiritual formation, early childhood training, and practical intellectual skills.
The Ministry and Its Duties
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Argues the gospel ministry requires a divine, individual call; stresses ministers’ personal inadequacy, required moral and intellectual qualifications, and the Church’s role in authenticating that call.
Natural Law in the Spiritual World
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Review of Drummond’s Natural Law in the Spiritual World, praising its use of natural analogies to defend Christian faith and reconcile science with Scripture.
Joseph Mayo Atkinson, D.D.
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Necrological report to Princeton Theological Seminary Alumni (May 5, 1891) containing obituaries and brief biographies of deceased Presbyterian ministers.
Mutual Relation of Masters and Slaves as Taught in the Bible
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1861 sermon by Joseph R. Wilson defending American slavery as biblically sanctioned, reading ‘servants’ in Ephesians 6:5–9 as chattel slavery and arguing Scripture’s silence implies approval.
The General Assembly of 1862
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Report on the 1862 General Assembly (Montgomery) during the war: small attendance, disrupted committees, and a strong focus on foreign and domestic missions and instruction of the colored people.
Beneficiary Ministerial Education
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1864 Confederate Presbyterian essay defending ‘beneficiary’ ministerial education. Argues the church must fund and train ministers and rebuts objections to stipend-based support.
The Life of Joseph Addison Alexander
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Article tracing the history and meaning of baptism as a Christian sacrament. Also a long biographical review of Joseph Addison Alexander, Princeton theologian.
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