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Review of B.B. Warfield, The Plan of Salvation

Postmillennarian essay on the Second Coming emphasizing its central eschatological significance. Includes reviews: Warfield on salvation and a critique of Coffin's Ten Commandments.
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Religion in Russia, Past, Present, and Future

Review of the 1919 New Orleans Assembly and a historical survey of the Russian Orthodox Church: origins, doctrine, polity, worship, and its relation to the state up to 1917.
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Some Modern Isms

Lecture excerpt (1918) critiquing Mormonism: Joseph Smith's origins, the Book of Mormon, polygamy, and the Mormon materialist view of God, arguing against its claims to Christian continuity.
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Charles Campbell Hersman

Biographical sketch of Charles Campbell Hersman (1838–1924), Presbyterian scholar and seminary professor, summarizing his education, academic career, character, and ministry.
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God’s Answer to Evolution

Lectures critiquing evolutionary naturalism and 'science-theologians', defending creation ex nihilo and the harmony of Scripture with true science. Argues for a theistic account of origins.
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The Work of the Church

Essays on Christian education and the Church's mission: disciple all nations, preserve orthodox doctrine, and cultivate Christlike character—always abounding in the Lord's work.
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Fundamental Christianity

Essay reviewing Patton's Fundamental Christianity—argues for theism, natural theology, and Scripture as final authority (Reason, Church, Bible). Also a brief bio of Col. John Q. Dickinson.
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Wilhelm Herrmann’s Systematic Theology

Review criticizing Wilhelm Herrmann: he privileges subjective religious experience over classical proofs for God and advances a uni-personal God contrary to Trinitarian Christology.
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Justification By Faith [The Evangelical Quarterly]

Explains justification by faith as Scripture‑grounded and forensic: God declares sinners righteous by imputing Christ's righteousness, occurring after effectual calling/regeneration.
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Justification By Faith [Union Seminary Review]

Essays on religious certainty—rooted in Christ's authority—and on justification by faith, argued as grounded in special revelation, ordered in salvation, and forensic in meaning.
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Effectual Calling

Defends that Scripture teaches effectual calling: a Spirit-wrought, efficacious call producing true faith, distinct from a merely external 'common' call. Refutes Arminian objections.
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