Where Art Thou?
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Two sermons urging Christians to repent, fulfill their God-given duties, and stand ready for judgment (based on Genesis 3:9 and Joshua 23:14), affirming God’s faithfulness.
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Where Art Thou?
A Discourse Addressed to the Alumni of the Princeton Theological Seminary, April 30, 1862, on Occasion of the Completion of Its First Half Century
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An 1862 semi-centennial discourse praising Princeton Theological Seminary’s founding spirit, place, faculty, and legacy. Argues the seminary’s power lies in its origins, location, and leaders.
Memorial Volume of the First Fifty Years of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1861)
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Memorial volume marking the first fifty years (to 1861) of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Surveys the Board’s founding, constitution, finances, agencies, and global missions.
A Discourse Commemorative of the Late Rev. Robert Baird
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A commemorative discourse urging ministers to adopt Christ’s single ruling passion: doing the will of God. It examines ministerial duty, scope, influence, and eternal results.
A Discourse Delivered at Spencertown, N.Y. at the Funeral of the Rev. Timothy Woodbridge
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Funeral sermon (1862) by W. B. Sprague on Revelation 7:15. He depicts the redeemed’s eternal service as intelligent, holy, varied, social, joyful, grateful, and unending.
A Discourse, Delivered at the Funeral of the Rev. Samuel Osgood
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Funeral discourse urging integrity in the Christian ministry. Argues a conscience-led integrity produces diligent, bold, lasting, and effective pastoral work.
An Address Delivered in the Evangelical Lutheran Ebenezer Church, Albany, on Occasion of the Funeral of Mrs. Susan C. Pohlman
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Funeral sermon on hope in death: God’s sovereign grace turns doubt into final assurance through diverse trials. Illustrates Mrs. Pohlman’s late triumph and comforts the bereaved.
Review of Memoirs of the Rev. Nicholas Murray, D.D., (Kirwan)
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Reviews of Hopkins’ Lectures on Moral Science and a memoir of Rev. Nicholas Murray: his Irish Catholic origins, conversion to Protestantism, wide ministry, character, and death.
The Undeveloped Resources of the Church
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Sprague argues the Church’s undeveloped resources are talent, learning, money, and above all living piety; he urges cultivating intellect, funding missions, and nurturing devotion.
A Discourse Addressed to the United Presbyterian Congregation, Troy
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Funeral sermon (Feb 21, 1864) by W. B. Sprague for Rev. Peter Bullions. Expounds “I am now ready to be offered” — Christian readiness for death — and sketches Bullions’ life.
A Discourse Delivered August 2, 1864, in Plymouth Church, Syracuse, on Occasion of the Funeral of Rev. Daniel W. Waldo
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Funeral discourse (Aug 2, 1864) by W. B. Sprague for Rev. Daniel Waldo (nearly 102). Reflects on Methuselah (Gen. 5) to draw lessons on divine providence, long life, and life’s brevity.
An Address Delivered, March 31, 1864, on Occasion of the Funeral of Rev. John N. Campbell
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Memorial for Rev. John N. Campbell (d.1864) recounting his funeral and services. Rev. W.B. Sprague’s sermon urges preparation for death, faithfulness in ministry, and hope in the resurrection.
Memoir of Joseph Lathrop, D.D.
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Memoir of Joseph Lathrop, D.D., recounting his conversion, Yale education, long pastoral ministry, controversies (baptism, false teachers), and steadfast devotion to preaching.
Memoir of President Davies
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Memoir and sermons of Rev. Samuel Davies, 18th-century Presbyterian minister and president of the College of New Jersey, recounting his conversion, education, and missionary labors in Virginia.
Memoirs of the Rev. John McDowell, D.D., and the Rev. William A. McDowell
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Memoirs of Revs. John and William A. McDowell. Traces John’s upbringing, conversion, Princeton education, ordination, and ministry at Elizabethtown; a Presbyterian pastoral biography.
The Influence of the World — Death Comes to All
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Friends’ Review selections: Isaac Sharp’s 1863 Iceland travel and meetings; counsel urging Bible-classes and Christian unity; essays on the world’s lure, death, sanctification, and farming’s drawbacks.
A Discourse Delivered in the Second Presbyterian Church, Succeeding the Assassination of the President of the United States
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Funeral sermon delivered Apr 16, 1865 after the U.S. President’s assassination. Reflects on God’s providence, the depth of human depravity, and urges repentance and regeneration.
A Discourse, Delivered Sabbath Morning, September 3, 1865, on Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Dedication of the Second Presbyterian Church, Albany
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1865 commemorative sermon tracing Second Presbyterian Church’s 50-year history, arguing ‘one soweth and another reapeth’—founding shaped by revivals, missions, peace, and faithful leaders.
An Address, Delivered on the 9th of August, 1865, Before the Phrenakosmian Society of Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg
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An 1865 college address urging the educated to restore and advance the nation’s intellectual, moral, and religious life after the Civil War, including education for freedmen.
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