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Report of the Lynchburg Auxiliary Colonization Society

Lynchburg Colonization Society report urging emigration to Liberia to curb the slave trade and promote Christian missions and civilization in Africa. Reviews native conditions and missionary progress.
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The United Presbyterian Church of North America

Account of the United Presbyterian Church of North America's origins, union, doctrine and polity—emphasizing exclusive psalmody, strong anti-slavery conviction, and organizational life.
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United Presbyterianism

A pastor's manual for youth explaining saving faith, means of grace, and Presbyterian doctrine. Guides catechism study, church membership, and personal piety.
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Church Extension in Sparsely Settled Districts

1880 Presbyterian Alliance proceedings on church extension: strategies for urban and sparsely settled missions, urging adaptation of Presbyterian polity to evangelize cities, country, and Ireland.
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Lectures on the Revelation

Eighty lectures (1873–76) expounding the Book of Revelation from a historical (historicist) viewpoint, tracing the church's history and end-time visions chapter by chapter.
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James Reid

Comprehensive 1888 history of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America. Contains ministerial biographies, congregational and mission sketches, institutions, publications, and portraits.
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Obituary of the Rev. James Reid

Argues sin’s dominion corrupts all duties, producing 'dead works.' Includes an obituary of Rev. James Reid—his Christ‑centred ministry, labors in Scotland and America, and later separation from the Synod.

Rev. John Bunyan Reeve, A.B., D.D.

Brief biography of Rev. John Bunyan Reeve (b.1831): esteemed Presbyterian minister, Howard University theology professor, longtime Philadelphia pastor, and D.D. honoree.

Prayer Meeting Report

Reports the Jubilee Singers' first Scottish concert and Fisk University cornerstone ceremony, highlighting fundraising for freedmen's education and a Howard University prayer meeting urging missionary zeal.
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The Historic Episcopate

Two reviews: archaeological search for Israel in Egyptian records; critique of R.J. Cooke's defense of the historic episcopate and Anglican claims to apostolic succession.
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The Laborers Are Few

Warns the Southern Presbyterian Church faces a marked decline in ministerial candidates; diagnoses causes (spiritual cooling, urban drift, inadequate support) and urges prayer and active recruitment.
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Deceivers and Their Dupes

Polemic surveying modern religious impostures—Mormonism, spiritualism, theosophy, Christian Science—and Catholic relics; warns of widespread credulity and calls for discernment.
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