Preaching to Win Souls
A 1903 Presbyterian paper reporting on religious liberty in Russia, labor injunctions and international church-state issues, with devotions urging bold faith (luke 5) and soul-winning.
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Preaching to Win Souls
Fuel and Fire for Prayer Meetings
News and commentary: Venezuela diplomacy, a labor 'independent workmen' movement, missionary Schereschewski, football safety, and Cuyler's plea to revive fervent prayer meetings.
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Lovable Christians
Editorial urging gratitude and generous Christian giving amid abundant harvests; warns against forgetting God and over-commercializing church events. Stresses sympathy and timely kindness.
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Anchored
Political and labor news (Salisbury, Balfour, strikes, trusts), followed by an essay arguing Christianity's divine origin evidenced by its influence on poetry and literature.
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The Lord’s Day and the German’s Beer
Profile of Rev. T.L. Cuyler and a defense of Sunday-closing laws against Sunday saloons, arguing temperance and Sabbath observance. Ends with the short story "Not Too Late."
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Why Are Conversions Fewer?
Discusses a decline in conversions attributed to lack of pointed, evangelistic preaching and weakened family worship; also reports debate over legalizing Sunday saloons in New York.
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Treasures in Heaven
Devotional urging Christians to 'store up treasures in heaven' through sacrifice, giving, and faithful service. Also reports statistical growth of Catholic and Evangelical churches in Germany.
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A Prescription for Sick Christians
Devotional urging spiritual revival: diagnoses 'sick' Christians and prescribes confession, Bible-feeding, work and prayer. Includes reflections on favorite hymns of consolation.
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Christ’s Workmanship
On Christian character as Christ's workmanship—growth under God's shaping—and Luther's formative principle: justification by faith through imputation of Christ's righteousness.
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A Timely Text
A Lutheran Observer piece combining a reflective poem on aging with a pastoral essay urging trust in God, steadfastness, and seeing suffering as service that glorifies God.
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Christ’s Prisoners
Poems and reflections on Christian suffering and spiritual "prisoners of Jesus Christ," emphasizing experiential faith and the Lutheran doctrine of justification by faith.
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This One Thing
Devotional poems and essays urging single-minded devotion to Christ (Paul's 'this one thing'). Historical article on the formation and adoption of the Augsburg Confession (1529–1530).
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What Shall the Church Do with the Temperance Reform?
Urges the church to combat alcohol via abstinence, temperance societies and civic action. Argues justification by faith is Lutheranism's distinctive, shaping view of the Lord's Supper.
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Our God as a Rewarder
Devotional essays and poems urging faith, prayer, obedience, and perseverance. Emphasizes that God rewards those who diligently seek him and includes healing and conversion stories.
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Address … at a Service Held in Memory of Dr. John Thomas Duffield, on May 12th, 1901, in the Second Presbyterian Church, Princeton
Memorial address honoring Dr. John T. Duffield, Princeton professor and Presbyterian leader, highlighting his scholarship, evangelistic labors, and steadfast loyalty to confessional orthodoxy.
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Cradled on the Rocks
Poems, sermons, and Bible studies on faith, Christ's priesthood, stewardship, and a critique arguing an 'official' church paper would conflict with Lutheran principles and church liberty.
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Starting Out for Christ
Selections from the Lutheran Observer (1901): poem 'The Chambered Nautilus' and essays on providence, history, and beginning the Christian life—encouraging trust in God's help.
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The Requests of the Nineteenth Century
Urges Christian hope, active missions, and social reform. A mock 'will' bequeaths inventions, missionary societies, charities, and the Bible to the twentieth century.
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Forward!
Assembly Herald urges American churches to go 'Forward!' into twentieth-century missions—foreign and home—calling for evangelism, support for China and renewed missionary zeal.
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