Sermons
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Collected sermons of Rev. William Ashmead (1830) with a memoir. Doctrinal and pastoral discourses delivered to American Presbyterian congregations.
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Sermons
William Ashmead
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Memoir of William Ashmead (1798–1829), an American Presbyterian minister and scholar. Covers his ministry in Lancaster and Charleston, his writings, and early death.
The Action of Our General Assembly Concerning Freedmen
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A poem on the widow's mite followed by detailed guidance and a debate on pulpit manner—prayer practice, posture, length, decorum, and practical exceptions for ministers.
Ecclesiastical Relations of Freedmen
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Argues the Southern Presbyterian Church should welcome freedmen into its ministry and courts, evangelize and support them, and pursue racial unity despite white resistance.
Lecky’s History of European Morals
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Review critiques Lecky's History of European Morals, weighing his intuitionist account of moral faculty against utilitarianism and stressing the theological importance of conscience.
John Mayo Pleasants Atkinson, D.D.: A Memorial Address
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Memorial address honoring Rev. J. M. P. Atkinson that recounts Hampden-Sydney College's Presbyterian founding, patriotic roots, and legacy of learned clergy and gentlemanly culture.
Rebel Cruelty
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Two Presbyterian correspondence pieces: a Newport travel letter describing forts, ships, and Christian benefactors; and a Kentucky report on guerrilla raids, a burned town, and local church life.
The Iron Furnace: Or, Slavery and Secession
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1863 memoir by Rev. John H. Aughey recounting slavery, Southern secession debates, Unionist persecution, prison life, escapes, and appeals against rebellion.
Spiritual Gems of the Ages
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A devotional anthology of pithy spiritual maxims on repentance, prayer, atonement, holiness, and temperance, aimed to guide believers and aid preachers.
Tupelo
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Memoir of Rev. John H. Aughey, a Southern Unionist, detailing arrest, imprisonment, brutality, escapes, vigilante violence, and the realities of slavery during the Civil War.
The Fighting Preacher
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Memoir by Rev. John H. Aughey recounting secession-era Mississippi: debates over slavery, Unionist persecution, prison life, escapes, and wartime chaplaincy.
David Austin
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Sketch of Rev. David Austin, a popular Presbyterian pastor whose millennialist predictions of Christ's imminent reign led to delusion, church conflict, and his removal.
Two Sermons
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Sermon on 'Judge not' (Matt. 7:1) arguing it forbids uncharitable, obtrusive judgments—not civil or ecclesiastical authority—and urges loving, responsible rebuke and discipline.
Memorial of the Presbytery of Georgia to the Presbyteries of the Southern States on the Religious Instruction of the Negroes
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1846 memorial urging Southern Presbyterian churches to evangelize enslaved Black people and place their religious instruction under the Assembly's Board of Domestic Missions.
John Chester Backus, D.D.
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Reference work on the Presbyterian Church (U.S.), offering biographical sketches of ministers and editors, and notes on assemblies, publications, and historic decorations.
John Chester Backus, D.D., LL.D.
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Obituary of John Chester Backus (1810–1884), longtime pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Baltimore, seminary director, and 1861 General Assembly moderator.
Address at the Funeral of the Rev. Dr. Nott
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Funeral address (1866) for Rev. Dr. Nott, honoring his piety, educational leadership, magnanimity, peacemaking, pastoral care, and meditations on death and Divine Providence.
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