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An Emergency Fund Needed at Once

Appeal to fund a new Seamen's Institute and provide emergency aid to Presbyterian churches, missions, pastors and Chinese/Japanese victims after the San Francisco earthquake. Calls for prompt, generous donations.
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Appeal from San Francisco

1906 Herald and Presbyter highlights a Bohemian Presbyterian congregation, urges committed local church membership, and Cuyler's essay on how trials ('head-winds') build Christian character.
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The Presbyterian Church in California, 1849–1927

A history of the Presbyterian Church in California (1849–1927) by Edward A. Wicher, tracing pioneer ministers, presbyteries, missions, women's work, and theological education.
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My Story of the Earthquake

Reverend Edward A. Wicher's first-person account of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake: violent tremors, fires, evacuation, martial law, ministerial compassion, and the ruin of the seminary.
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Story of San Francisco’s Disaster

Discusses earthquakes, volcanoes and the 1906 San Francisco quake/fire, arguing they're natural events not divine punishment. Urges better construction, sanitation, relief, and civic unity.
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Ancient Jewish Views of the Messiah

Survey of ancient Jewish messianic expectations among Sadducees, Pharisees and scribes. Discusses Davidic kingship, pre-existence, a suffering Messiah, national redemption and resurrection.
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The San Francisco Theological Seminary

October 1906 Assembly Herald: reports on education and seminary recovery after the San Francisco earthquake, advocacy for an educated ministry, and boards' mission work.
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The Bright Side of Disaster

Aug 1907 Assembly Herald urges 'Labor Sunday' outreach to workingmen and church-labor cooperation. It also reports foreign missions work in China, missionaries' returns, and a rescue home for girls.
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A Guardian at the Gate

Miss Donaldina Cameron ran a Presbyterian Mission in San Francisco, rescuing Chinese slave girls from tongs for 18 years, sheltering, educating, and legally defending them.
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The Story of Wong So

Missionary accounts of Chinese women and girls rescued from slavery in early 20th-century America, recounting captivity, conversion, education, and Christian rehabilitation.
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Ming Quong Home

Women-led mission pieces on Chinese communities: returning students' struggles and the Ming Quong home rescuing, training, and supporting orphaned girls.
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Henry Clay Cameron, Ph.D., D.D.

Necrological report presenting obituaries of Princeton alumni: a long-serving pastor of Bethlehem Church, Sydney, N.J., and Prof. Henry C. Cameron, longtime Greek professor at Princeton College.

Classification of the Mountain Whites

1901 Presbyterian study of Southern Appalachian "mountain whites": their Scotch-Irish origins, social types, character, and educational and home-mission needs.
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Union Seminary in the Pastorate

Centennial address celebrating Union Seminary's century of training pastors and contributing to church literature. Calls new graduates to holiness and mastery of Scripture.
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The Ideal and the Practical

Contrasts idealism and pragmatism, arguing ideals should guide practical action. Critiques pragmatism for making usefulness the sole test of truth.
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God and Man Finding Rest

Sermon argues God’s rest is fulfilled in creating man for fellowship; human rest is found only in God, disrupted by sin, and restored through Christ’s re-creation and redemption.
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