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Life and Immortality

Considers Babel as God's judgment on human pride and develops a philosophical-theological case that humans possess an immaterial, self‑conscious soul inherently immortal.
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The Gospel in Pagan Religions

Argues that the saving gospel, though obscured, appears within pagan religions and that God provides universal opportunity for salvation in Christ. Praises the World’s Parliament as ecumenical insight.
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The Fifth Gospel: The Land Where Jesus Lived

Explores Palestine's landscapes and towns as a "Fifth Gospel" that illuminates and clarifies the four written Gospels. Sketches key sites: Bethlehem, Nazareth, Galilee, Jerusalem.
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Reasons for Reunion

Critiques spurious emotional revivals, affirms reason plus true feeling, and defends miracles. Urges reunion of Northern and Southern Presbyterian churches now that wartime causes and slavery have passed.
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Evangelists and Lay-Exhorters

Argues the evangelist is a permanent, presbyterial itinerant office—distinct from bishops or apostles—and essential as the church’s missionary, pioneering arm.
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Our Educational Policy

Examines Presbyterian educational policy after the 1870 Assembly, weighing a central university against denominational schools to retain children, train ministers, and advance the Church.
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The Beautiful

Treats the beautiful as a real aesthetic datum, distinct from the agreeable or useful, and seeks its cause through philosophical analysis. Surveys Plato, Locke, Kant and links aesthetic feeling to mind's powers and God.
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