Archibald Alexander preaches from Isaiah 42:16 on how God leads his people by unseen paths. He describes conviction, conversion, and the assurance that God will not forsake them.

1843 commencement address urging balanced, age-appropriate education: avoid precocity and overtrained memory; cultivate judgment, steady study, lifelong learning, and focused specialization.

Pastoral guide urging young Christians to pursue vital piety: conversion, prayer, self-examination, Scripture study, and holy living grounded in regeneration and grace.

Overview of Charles C. Jones’s 1842 account on religious instruction of enslaved African Americans. Traces historical efforts, methods, and successes in evangelism, baptism, and literacy.

A sermon urging an immediate, deliberate decision to serve God rather than the world; affirms human moral agency and warns against lukewarm faith, worldliness, and delay.

A polemical tract warning against false ‘refuges’—infidelity, universalism, moralism, and formal religion—and urging sinners to repent and trust Christ alone for salvation.

Review of Montagu’s edition of Bacon and a condensed history of the Westminster Assembly, tracing England’s Reformation, church-state conflicts, and Puritan struggles.

Review of an 1843 public debate between Alexander Campbell and N.L. Rice on baptism—mode, subjects, and purpose—and on creeds, weighing arguments for immersion and infant baptism.

Introduction to Thomas Scott’s Practical Observations on the New Testament, urging family worship, regular Bible reading, and the Scriptures as the life-giving ‘word of life’.

1843 report urging U.S. support for Liberia: protect American commerce, expand Liberian territory, and combat the transatlantic slave trade via lawful commerce.

Review of Neander and Reid on early church planting, the Reformation, and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland—tracing Irish roots of American Presbyterianism and its missionary influence.

Pastoral reflections on religious experience: varieties of conversion, evidences of the new birth, and the need for Scripture and the Spirit. Practical guidance in self-examination.

Biographical sketches of the Log College founders and early Presbyterian ministers. Includes accounts of 18th-century revivals, the New Brunswick Presbytery, and origins of theological education.

Life of Isaac Milner: rose from poverty to President of Queen’s College; eminent mathematician, devout evangelical, influential in Wilberforce’s conversion and college reform.

Asserts that sanctified reason is necessary for interpreting Scripture—readers must discern the author’s design. Rejects both rationalism and blind fideism.

Archibald Alexander highlights Alexander Duff’s pioneering mission strategy in India, emphasizing the use of English education and Scripture to reach Hindu society’s educated classes. The article recounts Duff’s perseverance through shipwrecks, hardship, and opposition, while presenting his school in Calcutta as a model of thoughtful, patient evangelism that combined intellectual training, biblical instruction, and confidence in the transforming power of the gospel.

A concise compendium of systematic theology covering God’s being and attributes, Scripture, Christ’s person and work, salvation, sacraments, and eschatology.

Reviews Hopkins’ Lectures on the evidences of Christianity and a biography of Rev. Robert Housman. Highlights evangelical conversion, preaching, and regeneration versus baptism.