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Proposed Reforms in Collegiate Education

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Defends a required college curriculum and disciplined attendance. Warns that broad electives and student choice lead to cramming, indolence, and weak habits; urges core classical training.

Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater, D.D., LL.D.

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Necrological report (Princeton Theological Seminary, 1883) presenting biographical sketches of alumni and professors—careers, writings, church service, and deaths (e.g., Lyman Atwater).

Lyman H. Atwater, D.D., LL.D.

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Encyclopedia of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (Northern & Southern), ed. Alfred Nevin. Includes ministerial biographies, church histories, and institutional descriptions.

Manual of Elementary Logic (1867)

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College textbook on elementary logic for teachers and students. Covers conceptions, judgments, syllogisms, inference, fallacies, and methods of applied logic.

The Old or a Revised Confession

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Debate over a new creed versus revising the Westminster Confession. Authors defend Scripture authority and doctrines like election, warning against liberal revision.

Presbyterianism: Its Relation to the Negro

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Autobiography of Rev. Matthew Anderson and a history of the Berean Presbyterian Church: its founding and growth, mission to Black Philadelphians, church building and debt relief.

Our Theological Students

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Civil War-era Central Presbyterian on soldiers’ spiritual needs, destitution, seminary students joining the army, devotional reflections, missions, obituaries, and church news.

“The Christian Statesman”

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Funeral discourse urging that statesmen possess earnest piety, moral integrity, and Scripture-guided judgment. Supports church–state separation while calling for godly public leaders.

December 20, 1862 Letter

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Central Presbyterian (1863): editorial defends selling at market price vs. vague "fair price"; includes children’s pieces, a conversion narrative, and biblical reflections (1-samuel-13; psalms-8).

January 12, 1863 Letter

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Central Presbyterian pieces on 1862 wartime extortion, the nature of apostleship, faith and repentance, army chaplains, and a rural missionary anecdote.

January 29, 1863 Letter

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A shipboard letter recounts a transatlantic voyage, Sunday services to sailors, and a public lecture defending Southern secession while assessing the Confederacy’s prospects and finances.

January 5, 1863 Letter

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This issue condemns wartime extortion and high prices, urges religious instruction for enslaved people, and includes devotional poetry and a children’s piece about Christ.

The Victory Won

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Memorial of Rev. William J. Hoge (d.1864), a beloved Presbyterian minister who preached to soldiers. Sketches his character, ministry, and dying testimony.

Appeal to the People of Virginia

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1865 Richmond appeal urging Virginians to donate food to sustain the Army of Northern Virginia. Endorsed by Gen. R. E. Lee; outlines a pledge plan for rations and collection.

“I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord”

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Editorial urging Christians to prioritize the Church and family religion over secular concerns, and to support local religious newspapers as vital educators during Virginia’s postwar transition.

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