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Our Chatham Street Uncle; or, The Three Golden Balls

A 19th-century tale following Naomi, a gentile niece in a Jewish pawnbroker's household who attends a mission chapel and embraces the Nazarene, creating domestic and religious tensions.
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The New York Bible-Woman

Mary Ware, a 'Bible-woman,' ministers to New York's poor—bringing soup, care, and spiritual comfort in slum homes. A portrait of practical charity, prayer, and urban domestic missions.
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Almost a Nun

A Protestant novella depicting Catholic proselytism. A priest courts a dying woman's soul while friends defend salvation by Christ alone and urge personal piety.
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The Corner Stall: A New York Story

A 19th-century short story about Thomas Twigg, a poor pie-seller wrestling with prayer, conscience, and the gospel's call to the needy.
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The New York Needle-Woman, or, Elsie’s Stars

A Christian novella about Elsie, a New York needle-woman ministering among tenement families. It depicts urban poverty, charity, children, and the ruin of intemperance.
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The Cabin in the Brush

An 1867 tale of Rachel and her five children in the Missouri 'Brush'—poor, ignorant of Scripture and without ministers. A plea for home missions and Christian care on the frontier.
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The Life-Labor of Jean Garston

Biographical sketches from the Ladies' Repository (1859) highlighting devoted Christian women: Ann Wilkins' Liberia missionary work and Jean Garston's humble, self‑sacrificing service to the needy.
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The Patience of Hope and Other Sermons

Fifteen sermons with a biographical sketch of Rev. Joseph H. Wright. Emphasizes patient hope (Lam. 3:26), pastoral comfort, earnest preaching, and Christian devotion.
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John Wright

Biographical sketch of Rev. John Wright and 1750s Presbyterian revivals in Virginia and New York. Describes dramatic conversions—including many enslaved Africans—communions and ecclesiastical disputes.
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1761 Letter to Peter Munford

Biographical history of early Presbyterian ministers (to 1760), detailing 18th-century revivals, widespread conversions—including many enslaved African converts—and church disputes.
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Letters dated January 20 and 21, 1757

Eighteenth-century accounts of religious revivals in Britain and colonial America, documenting widespread conversions, sacramental awakenings, youth and slave conversions, and college revivals.
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August 18, 1755 Letter to John Gillies

Collection (published 1754, reprinted 1845) of letters and accounts of 1738–1755 revival movements in England and colonial America, reporting sacraments, conversions, and the Great Awakening.
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Our Life Among the Iroquois Indians

Memoir of missionary life among the Seneca Iroquois: church, education, daily scenes, cultural observations, and efforts to Christianize and uplift Native communities.
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A Spelling Book in the Seneca Language

Introductory section of a Seneca spelling-book explaining a phonetic orthography and alphabet (Pickering's system), aiming to teach Seneca speakers to read, especially Scripture.
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October 7, 1839 Letter

Quaker committees' 1840 statement documents fraud and government collusion to dispossess the Seneca in New York, urging protection and justice for the tribes.
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