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The Confessional Presbyterian Archive is a curated digital library dedicated to preserving and promoting the writings of 17th–20th century Presbyterian pastors, teachers, and leaders. Featuring thousands of searchable texts, biographies, and historical resources, the archive provides direct access to the primary-source materials of American Presbyterianism.

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A Present to Families: A Practical Work on the Covenant of Grace, as Given to Abraham: Designed to Promote Family Religion

John Rankin's Practical Work on the Covenant of Grace presents the covenant to Abraham as God's plan to preserve true religion, tracing the church to the first family and urging family piety.

John Rankin ⬩ 1840

An Address to the Churches in Relation to Slavery

Rev. John Rankin uses Scripture to condemn American slavery as incompatible with Christian teaching, contrasting Hebrew servitude laws with modern chattel slavery.

John Rankin ⬩ 1836

A Review of The Statement of the Faculty of Lane Seminary, in Relation to the Recent Difficulties in That Institution

Defense of Lane Seminary students' abolition society; condemns trustees' bans and regulations, argues slavery is a sin and immediate abolition preferable to colonization.

John Rankin ⬩ 1835

April 16, 1835 Letter to Amos Augustus Phelps

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John Rankin ⬩ 1835

Letters on American Slavery, Addressed to Mr. Thomas Rankin, Merchant at Middlebrook, Augusta Co., VA.

Abolitionist letters arguing slavery is unjust, using Scripture and natural science to refute racial inferiority and urging moral and civic action for emancipation.

John Rankin ⬩ 1833

Atrocities in the Kongo Free State

A missionary's graphic report exposes massacres and cannibalism in the Kongo Free State and urges protest. Also brief political dispatches on Bryan's tour and Congressional territorial policy.

David Cyrus Rankin, William Henry Sheppard ⬩ 1900

A Missionary Heroine

News items including Dewey's tour and politics; main features profile Mrs. Sheppard, a heroic Congo missionary, and a report on Euphrates College's expanding mission schools in Turkey.

David Cyrus Rankin ⬩ 1899

The Southern Presbyterian Assembly

News roundup: NY franchise tax debate and Mazet Committee Tammany probes; Southern Presbyterian Assembly reports on missions, seminaries, and a Baptist seminary appointment.

David Cyrus Rankin ⬩ 1899

Union Seminary Missionaries in Japan

History of Union Theological Seminary's founding and reports on foreign missions—growth in Mexico and Japan, missionary labors and brief biographies of field workers.

David Cyrus Rankin ⬩ 1898

Our Church and Her Work Amongst the Negroes

1885 Southern Presbyterian Review surveys the Church's post‑War work among Black Americans: evangelism, the Tuskaloosa Institute's ministerial training, fundraising, and racial obstacles.

David Cyrus Rankin ⬩ 1885

“Our Brother in Black”

Review of Haygood's Our Brother in Black: argues emancipation was providential, urges Southern-led Christian education and uplift of freedmen, and criticizes Northern methods.

David Cyrus Rankin ⬩ 1882

Dialogues, Pleasant and Interesting, Upon … Church Government, What Are the Legitimate Terms of Admission to Visible Church Communion?

Adam Rankin's 1819 Dialogues examine legitimate terms for admission to visible church communion. Emphasizes self-examination, ministerial oversight, and sacramental discipline.

Adam Rankin ⬩ 1819

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A Present to Families: A Practical Work on the Covenant of Grace, as Given to Abraham: Designed to Promote Family Religion

An Address to the Churches in Relation to Slavery

A Review of The Statement of the Faculty of Lane Seminary, in Relation to the Recent Difficulties in That Institution

April 16, 1835 Letter to Amos Augustus Phelps

Letters on American Slavery, Addressed to Mr. Thomas Rankin, Merchant at Middlebrook, Augusta Co., VA.

Atrocities in the Kongo Free State

A Missionary Heroine

The Southern Presbyterian Assembly

Union Seminary Missionaries in Japan

Our Church and Her Work Amongst the Negroes

“Our Brother in Black”

Dialogues, Pleasant and Interesting, Upon … Church Government, What Are the Legitimate Terms of Admission to Visible Church Communion?

A Review of The Noted Revival in Kentucky, Commenced in the Year of Our Lord, 1801

A Review of The Noted Revival in Kentucky, Commenced in the Year of Our Lord, 1801

An Easter Melody

Beyond the Shadows

Verses

The Uplands of God, and Other Religious Poems

A Handy Book of Old and Familiar Hymns

Charles Hodge, of Princeton

Confessional Intelligence

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