The Social Side of Christianity
Argues for devout, well-prepared preaching over shallow extempore delivery; critiques congregational social exclusivity; urges regular public worship attendance for children.
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The Social Side of Christianity
Shutting the Closet Door
Essays on homiletics: using church history as sermon illustration to promote tolerance; counsel on private devotion (keep the closet door shut); and using biography as pulpit analogy.
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Raising Church Revenues
Selections from The Homiletic Review (Feb 1898): essays on skepticism and religious idolatry, a critique of church bazaars for fundraising, and practical pastoral advice for young ministers.
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How the Non-Churchgoing Masses Are to Be Reacht in Order to Give Them the Gospel
Urges churches to welcome non-churchgoers, abandon social exclusivity and sensationalism, and rely on personal outreach and the Holy Spirit rather than secular substitutes.
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The Relative Value of Topical and Expository Preaching
Defends the Bible against modern rationalism and urges personal responsibility for its authority. Compares topical and expository preaching and advocates alternating both methods for balance.
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The Sunday-School: Its Present Peril
1897 Presbyterian Quarterly pieces on the Old Testament canon and Sunday-school dangers. Critiques 'new education' methods and warns against overstating Scripture in apologetics.
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The Westminster Assembly: Its Place of Meeting, Its Proceedings, and Its Personnel
Survey of the Westminster Assembly: its meeting in the Jerusalem Chamber, proceedings, members and Calvinistic doctrine. Describes devotional life, debates, and formation of the Westminster Standards.
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Not One Forgotten
Sermon affirming God's particular providence: He cares for the least things—sparrows, hairs, daily routines—and offers comfort and assurance to the afflicted to trust His oversight.
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The Kind of Preaching Needed Among the Unevangelized People of Our Country
Egyptology supplies cultural illustration but few direct references to Israelites; preaching to unevangelized should be sympathetic, plainly gospel-focused, candid on sin, and rich in Scripture.
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The Pastor and Social Problems
Argues pastors should prioritize direct, gospel-centered preaching and pastoral care rather than acting as partisan experts on complex social and economic disputes.
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Sensational Preaching
Critique of 'sensational' preaching: distinguishes wholesome, spirit-awakening emotion that leads to repentance from cheap theatrics that manipulate lower feelings and distract from the Gospel.
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Beattie’s Radical Criticism
Discussion of primeval man, defense of Mosaic authorship and the Pentateuch, and a review criticizing radical/higher criticism while commending Beattie's conservative apologetics.
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The Opening of Effectual Doors
Survey of Native American customs and contemporary mission openings. Argues that modern wealth, language tools, and security create effectual doors to finish the Great Commission.
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The Homiletic Value of the Book of Leviticus
Essay arguing Leviticus is a handbook of worship whose rituals teach enduring homiletic principles—sacrifice, priesthood, purity and festivals—for preaching and public worship today.
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Persia, Its Religions and Mission Work
Obituary for Rev. Thomas E. Peck and a missionary survey of Persia: its peoples, Nestorians, Zoroastrianism, Yazidis, and many Islamic sects and practices, urging mission work.
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Andrew Jackson Witherspoon: In Memoriam
Proceedings and addresses of the Fifth Congress of the Scotch-Irish Society of America (Springfield, OH, May 1893), containing historical papers, biographies, devotional services, and society records.
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The [Southern] General Assembly of 1892
Examines the authority of written Revelation and reviews the 1892 General Assembly—its sessions, hospitality, judicial questions, and mission and church business.
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Methods of Theological Education
Debates the authority and inspiration of Scripture as foundational for doctrines of grace and critically reviews methods of theological education and seminary training.
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A Model Undertaker
A natural-history vignette describing burying beetles (Necrophorus) collaborating to bury a fish, lay eggs, and complete their lifecycle—an engaging children's science story.
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The Best of All Legacies
A homiletic review: contrasts clerical conservatism and scientific radicalism; meditations on Christ’s sufferings; and exhortations from Elijah and Isaiah urging consecration, courage, and youth.
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