The Public Preaching of Women
A 1879 Southern Presbyterian Review article argues that women should be excluded from public preaching, appealing to Scripture, church order, and the dangers of innovation.
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The Public Preaching of Women
An Examination of the Leading Points of the System of Alexander Campbell
A Presbyterian critique of Alexander Campbell arguing creeds and subscription are necessary for doctrinal clarity, church unity, and proper baptism and church order.
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July 10, 1880 Letter
Letters to Central Presbyterian report European travel, English debates, and praise preachers; they condemn Germany’s lax Sabbath practice and urge revival of family worship.
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June 24, 1880 Letter
Dabney warns Britain’s monstrous urban growth and fragile imperial order may collapse. A following letter attacks Roman Catholic claims of "no salvation outside the Church" using catechism quotes.
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May 29, 1880 Letter
1880 Central Presbyterian: R. L. Dabney reports from Scotland on agriculture, labor conditions and comparisons with slavery; includes church news — Gloucester Co. mission and Franklin St. church statistics.
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Popular Education as a Safeguard for Popular Suffrage
Argues that popular education alone cannot secure safe suffrage; safeguards require moral restraint (notably Christianity) and constitutional distribution of powers to prevent majority tyranny.
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September 21, 1880 Letter
Dabney praises Spurgeon’s plain, powerful ministry but warns that personal-centered succession risks prelatic drift. He urges Presbyterian order and simple Protestant worship.
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The Sabbath of the State
Critiques the National Liberal League’s secularism, linking abolitionism and radicalism to atheism and communism, and defends Sunday laws and church-state order.
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Dr. Alexander and Immersionism
Editorial reflections celebrating Christmas as a home-centered reminder of Christ’s humble incarnation and its inspiring power; urges charity toward Roman Catholics while critiquing certain Roman teachings.
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The General Assembly of 1881
Essays on agnosticism and a report of the 1881 Southern Presbyterian General Assembly, emphasizing the doctrines of grace, missions funding, church independence, and reform.
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The Huguenots and Human Rights
Central Presbyterian reports on the 1881 Paris Electrical Exposition—electric light, telegraph, induction diagnostics—and presents the Synod of Virginia’s evangelistic report on presbytery missions.
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The Influence of the German University System on Theological Literature
Affirms God’s universal righteousness and critiques German university influence on Protestant theology—Erastian state control, sacramentarian Lutheranism, and lax spiritual discipline.
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The Revised Version of the New Testament (Southern Presbyterian Review)
An 1881 review criticizing the British-led Revised Version for privileging novel critical readings over the Received Text, omitting contested passages and hiding critical grounds.
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“Oh! You Are a Pessimist!”
Editorial criticizes papal pomp and Leo XIII’s revival of Aquinas, warns of Church–state alliances, and debates whether intemperance should be handled by Church or State.
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Professor W. Robertson Smith
Review condemns W. Robertson Smith’s Old Testament criticism and defends the Masoretic text and Mosaic authorship. It accuses Smith of one-sided, rationalistic methods undermining inspiration.
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Review of Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
Review of Jefferson Davis’s Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, defending Southern secession and constitutional claims while assessing Davis’s statesmanship and motives.
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The Christian Sabbath
Defends the Christian Sabbath as a moral, perpetual duty instituted at creation and affirmed by Scripture and the Westminster Confession; argues first-day observance after Christ’s resurrection.
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Stonewall Jackson (1872)
Gen. Braxton Bragg’s Chickamauga report and R.L. Dabney’s lecture on Stonewall Jackson, highlighting Jackson’s character, leadership, and religious devotion in Civil War memory.
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The Nature of Physical Causes and Their Induction
Two pieces: one reviews the Council at Jerusalem and apostolic precedents for church polity; the other explores inductive reasoning and the rational law of causation.
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The New South
Dabney’s 1882 commencement address warns that social and economic centralization, radical egalitarianism, and press corruption threaten the republican institutions bequeathed by the founders.
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