Motherly Faithfulness
Calls churches to review pastors' salaries amid rising costs and reports on missions and Sunday schools. Includes a devotional on 'Motherly Faithfulness' urging example, prayer, training.
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Motherly Faithfulness
Foreign Missions
A prayer-meeting essay explores whether the Orient will follow the Crescent or the Cross, urging intensified foreign missions. Also addresses wartime Christian duty, tithing, and mission stats.
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“Whom Having Not Seen, Ye Love”
Christian Observer (Apr 18, 1917) reports missionary news (China opium ban, Mexico convention), urges evangelism and wartime prohibition, and includes a devotional on loving Christ unseen.
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Sabbath Blessings
April 11, 1917 Christian Observer: editorials on character formation, Sabbath observance, stewardship, missions, and moral instruction (lying), plus church reports and religious liberty news.
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The Victorious Christ
Christian Observer (Apr 4, 1917) affirms Christ's vicarious atonement and exaltation, refutes Unitarianism, reports missionary deaths, and urges Bible-centered evangelism and missions.
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The Price of Leadership
Christian Observer (Mar 21, 1917) reports on the Laymen's Missionary Convention, urges faithful Christian stewardship, highlights a foreign missions funding shortfall, and calls for moral leadership.
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Glorying in the Cross
Christian Observer (Mar 21, 1917): sermon 'Glorying in the Cross' (Gal. 6) calling believers to boast only in Christ's cross. Also covers missions funding, stewardship, and church news.
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Christ the Supreme Gift
Christian Observer (Mar 14, 1917) issue urging evangelism and foreign missions, reporting prohibition progress, promoting stewardship, and meditating on 'Christ the Supreme Gift' (John 6).
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The Value of Daily Prayer
Presbyterian periodical urges support for ministerial pensions and relief while offering devotional instruction on daily prayer and its benefits—guidance, defense, and support.
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What Is It to Magnify God?
Issue champions the family altar and home religion, urging family worship, prayer and service. Features articles on family devotion, youth service, and prayer meetings.
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Religion and National Education
Calls for fellowship with God, prayer for leaders, and faithful missions amid wartime. Argues national moral standards require religious sanction and should shape public education.
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Walking with Jesus
Devotional stresses the present Christ—from the Emmaus encounter to the Lord's Supper as communion—and urges Bible-centered teaching, noon prayer, and active missions.
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The Meaning of Confession of Faith in Christ
1917 Christian Observer urging mid-week prayer meetings, catechism campaigns, and young people's societies. Emphasizes confession of Christ, solitude, courage, and participation.
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What Is the Bible to Us?
Christian Observer (Jan 17, 1917) urging Bible-centered worship and study, promoting Christian stewardship, youth Christian Endeavor, missions, prayer meetings, and family religion.
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Prevailing Prayer
1917 Christian Observer issue urging daily Bible reading, prevailing prayer, Sunday School and catechism memorization; includes articles on stewardship, youth, and Christian living.
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Memorial to Dr. James I. Vance
A sermon on the Lord's Prayer stressing God's universal fatherhood, Jesus unveiling God's character, and the call for sinners to return to the Father's home and live as His children.
“Thus Pray Ye”
Reflection on the Lord's Prayer: Jesus reveals God's universal Fatherhood, urging return from sin, compassion for all, and the responsibility of kinship with God.
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Organic Union Among Presbyterians
Urges patient, prayerful organic union among Presbyterian bodies while guarding Christ's deity and historic standards, and reforming polity and courts for effective unified ministry.
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