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Entertaining Saints vs. Converting Sinners

Discussion on improving ministerial training—selecting gifted teachers and effective teaching methods. Includes essays on evangelism vs. entertainment and suggested sermon themes/texts.
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Rev. Horatio Bonar, D.D.

Essays on how the pulpit may meet modern skepticism, a biographical sketch of hymn-writer Rev. Horatio Bonar (his children’s sermon), and a piece on the 'silent men' at prayer meetings.
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Dr. Joseph Parker’s Thursday Noon Sermon

Essay on how the pulpit should confront modern skepticism by clarifying its role and methods. Reviews Dr. Joseph Parker’s John 11 “If” sermon and a pastor's prayer service for an invalid.
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The Christian Conception of Property

Argues the Christian view that God owns all; human ownership is derivative and must be subordinated to society's welfare. Critiques both extreme individualism and poorly applied communism.
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The Pattern in the Mount, and Other Sermons

Sermons urging Christians to live by divine patterns (Ex.25:40): plan life by God's ideal, cultivate purposeful work and methodical piety. Advocates long-range aims over aimless drift.
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The Pattern in the Mount

Sermons on eternal life, the soul after death, and the blessedness of believers in heaven. Encourages hope in Christ's saving grace and preparation for eternity.
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The Dignity Inherent in Man’s Nature

Argues for the intrinsic dignity of human nature: humans mirror God's mind and can receive revelation. The Cross proves God's esteem for sinners and validates human worth.
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Young Manhood: Its Peril and Its Rescue

Sermon diagnosing young manhood’s perils—overstimulation, severed traditions, alcohol, sexual impurity, theatre, and greed—and urging sympathetic rescue, public moral earnestness, and revival.
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Woman: Her Dues and Her Debts

Charles H. Parkhurst urges full education and Christian development for women, arguing womanhood has distinct duties, rights, and vocation grounded in Scripture.
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In Memoriam: Judge Joseph S. Bosworth

Funeral address for Judge Joseph S. Bosworth praising his integrity, judicial wisdom, warm affections, late Christian profession, and the moral example his life leaves behind.
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Light the Outcome of Life

Two sermons: trust Christ as the sure 'rock' foundation (matthew-7) and embody His inward life so Christians quietly shine as the world's light (john-1; matthew-5).
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The Blind Man’s Creed, and Other Sermons

Parkhurst uses the healed blind man's 'One thing I know...I can see' to show true creed springs from personal experience and grows into a living, individual faith.
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Notes of Surgical Practice Among the Chinese

1844–45 Canton Ophthalmic Hospital report: medical missionaries treated 6,209 patients. Detailed surgical case histories (tumours, bladder stones, fractures) with treatments and outcomes.
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Statements Respecting Hospitals in China

Peter Parker's 1841 statement advocating establishment of hospitals in China through medical missions; reports cases, the Medical Missionary Society's constitution, and the evangelistic value of healing.
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