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The Personal Christ, The Gospel for Our Time

Argues for the Bible's inspiration and the need for the personal Christ amid widespread modern skepticism, surveying literary and critical doubts while noting hopeful signs of return to faith.
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Gardiner Spring Plumley

Obituary record of Yale graduates (classes 1824–1852). Brief biographies note careers (ministry, medicine, law, missions), honors received, and circumstances of death.

Dolly

Excerpt from a late-19th-century American poets collection containing a children's poem about a pet lamb, Dolly, used to teach obedience, compassion and Jesus as the Lamb of God.
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The Society of Science, Letters and Art of London

Sept. 1890 University Magazine issue with essays on 'Teaching as a Fine Art', a profile of Cornell University, college life and athletics, and the Society of Science, Letters & Art (London).
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A Divine Teacher

May 1890 Homiletic Review: a collection of sermons, essays, reviews, and practical homiletic resources addressing preaching, church life, doctrine, and pastoral ministry.
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A College Coincidence

Profiles Union College leaders and Jonathan Edwards, then argues for founding a great, unsectarian American university to centralize advanced learning and uplift colleges.
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Eccentric Sermon Work

Essays on parish ministry and sermon-making: fidelity to parish work, ministers' health, varied methods of preparing sermons, and brief expositions of Isaiah 11, James 1, and Psalm 46.
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The Reconstruction

Account of the 1870 General Assembly's Reconstruction of the reunited Presbyterian Church: reorganization of synods and presbyteries, missions, and ministerial oversight.
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In “Dixie”

First-person 1861 Southern account of plantation prosperity built on slavery, rising secessionist sentiment, and the wartime shortages, social upheaval, and delusion that followed.
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Land of the Brave and Free

A patriotic hymn celebrating America's liberty, praising the Declaration and Constitution, and calling on God to preserve the Union. Chorus pledges hearts, hopes, lives and prayers to the Land of the Brave and Free.
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To Revise or Not to Revise

Article (The Presbyterian, 1900) debating proposals to revise or replace the Westminster Confession, arguing over creed revision, ministerial subscription, predestination, and church unity.
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The Blessed Hope of the Lord’s Return

Surveys archaeological searches for Israel in Egypt and defends premillennial 'blessed hope'—Christ's visible bodily return, the millennium, and literal prophetic fulfillment.
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A Divine Manual for All Christian Workers

Argues that Acts is the church's authoritative manual: the Holy Spirit empowers apostolic witness, grounding mission and applied Christianity until Christ's return.
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Why Believers Should “Not Fear”

Exposition of Rev. 1:17–18 showing Christ's eternal life, sacrificial death, resurrection, and authority over death — reasons believers need not fear death or judgment.
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The Manifold Ministry of the Holy Spirit

Treatise on the Holy Spirit's person and work, affirming His deity within the Trinity. Outlines a sevenfold ministry: creation, providence, Christ, Scripture, believers, church, and world.
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