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Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman

Argues prelacy is a political blunder forced on the church and condemns Gen. Sherman’s memoirs as justifying wartime pillage and the burning of Columbia, rejecting war’s claim to rightful spoils.
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Prelacy a Blunder

Argues that prelacy and sacramentalism wrongly make ordination and sacraments the channel of saving grace. True salvation is applied by the Word, preaching, and faith, not episcopal succession.
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The Negro and the Common School

1876 Southern editorial opposing state-funded common schools for freed Black people as wasteful and dangerous, arguing such education won’t make them fit citizens.
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The Pan-Presbyterian Alliance

Asserts Southern Presbyterians must reject the Pan-Presbyterian Alliance. Past slanders, constitutional usurpation, and demands over slavery would betray the Church’s testimony and self-respect.
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The Philosophy of Dr. Bledsoe

A Presbyterian critique of Dr. A.T. Bledsoe’s self-determination theory of the will, charging semi‑Pelagianism and defending Calvinist predestination and infant baptism.
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Broad Churchism

Critiques ‘Broad Churchism’, arguing true unity is spiritual/invisible rather than an institutional merger of denominations. Warns that enforced organic unity endangers truth and conscience.
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Dr. Bledsoe’s Philosophy of Volition

Review of A.T. Bledsoe’s Philosophy of Volition: argues his free‑agency theory is inconsistent and tends toward Pelagianism, examining mind, motive, and original sin.
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Reason and Understanding

Two essays: reassessing John Knox from newly found papers; and a philosophical article arguing that reason and understanding are not separate, since perception involves causal, rational judgment.
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Wilson’s Slave Power in America

A 1877 Presbyterian Review critique of Henry Wilson’s ‘Slave Power in America,’ defending Southern slavery and accusing Wilson of historical misrepresentation and partisan malice.
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Endless Punishment

Review criticizes Canon Farrar’s restorationist Universalism, defending orthodox belief in eternal punishment and arguing Scripture and theology support endless penal suffering.
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Free Schools

1879 editorial condemns state-run public schools as wasteful, levelling, and anti-religious, warning they foster socialism, overtaxation, moral decline, and threats from negro suffrage.
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Questions on Old Testament History

Catechetical Q&A on Old Testament history for students: discusses Scripture, inspiration, creation, Eden, the Fall, Cain & Abel, covenant, typology and study methods.
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Secularized Education

Defends Christian education against state secular schooling, arguing education is spiritual; warns state control secularizes morals, fuels sectarian conflict, and erodes liberty.
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The Bible-Revision Committees

Argues the Bible is law for nations as well as the Church and calls for careful English Bible revision to correct key translations (oikos/oikia, doulos/servant, metanoia).
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The Dancing Question

A Presbyterian polemic arguing that dancing is morally dangerous and should be opposed and, when necessary, disciplined by the church, citing antiquity and church courts.
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