Without Christ
Devotional poem portraying life as dark and purposeless "without Christ." It affirms that Christ alone gives hope, meaning, and light.
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Archives
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.
Without Christ
Outlines of Church History
Outline of church history from Christ's birth to 1648. Describes the religious state at Christ's advent, the apostolic church, missionary expansion, councils, and Paul's ministry.
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Alwyn: A Romance of Study
Poetic devotional romance celebrating nature, study, and the Creator. Follows Alwyn's youthful love of landscape, intellectual yearning, and the shaping influence of faith.
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Song and Scenery; or, A Summer Ramble in Scotland
19th-century travelogue recounting a summer ramble in Scotland, blending vivid landscape description, local history, poetry, and reflections on nature, national character, and faith.
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A Comparative History of Religions, Vol. 2
Comparative survey of world religions tracing primitive faith, creation myths and the origin of evil, the rise of legalism and monotheistic reforms across Hebrew, Avestan, Hindu, Chinese and Egyptian traditions.
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A Comparative History of Religions, Vol. 1
Moffat's Comparative History of Religions outlines his method, surveys ancient sacred books, and argues religion's universality while probing whether knowledge of God is natural or revealed.
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Alexandria of the Ptolemies
Profiles of Constantine's rise amid imperial danger and a vivid account of Ptolemy Philadelphus's extravagant Alexandrian pageant, emphasizing pagan ritual and royal power.
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Lord’s Old Roman World
Princeton Review (1868): an essay on truth, reason, and human depravity, followed by a review of John Lord’s Old Roman World tracing Rome’s rise, Caesar, and the legacy of ancient civilization.
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The British Churches Under Cromwell
Examines sanctification as Spirit-wrought new life amid sin and grace. Traces Puritan influence and English church divisions through Cromwell, Presbyterians and Independents.
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The Oriental Churches
Survey of early Scottish and Oriental church history, noting Celtic vs Latin Christianity, East–West divisions (Greek, Roman, Nestorian, Monophysite) and missionary/colonial impacts.
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Early History of Heathenism
Survey arguing that ancient peoples often held a personal monotheism preserved in Genesis; compares Vedas, Avesta, Egyptian and Assyrian monuments with biblical history.
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The Indebtedness of Modern Civilization to the Bible: A Discourse
1864 discourse arguing that modern civilization—its religion, education, sciences, arts, manners and just government—owes its progress chiefly to the Bible and Protestantism.
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Latin Christianity
Scholarly review of Latin Christianity tracing how Roman political and legal structures shaped the Western church: growth of episcopacy, centralization, rise of the papacy, and its divergence from the East.
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University Education
Two essays: one defends the Anglo-American Sabbath as rooted in creation and Mosaic law; the other surveys medieval university origins and argues for educational reform.
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Christian Enterprise
Examines prophets' role in preserving the covenant and foreshadowing Christ. Argues Christian enterprise as prudent, God-cooperating labor—a duty of stewardship and active faith.
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The Dutch
Essay on the Kingdom of Christ—faith, the incarnation, and walking by faith. Review of Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic: Reformation, Calvinism, and the Dutch fight for religious liberty under Philip II.
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Rawlinson’s Herodotus
Review of Herbert Spencer’s essays on education and George Rawlinson’s new edition of Herodotus. Praises Spencer’s learning and treats Herodotus as the culminating epic historian.
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Antiquity of the Book of Genesis
A defense of the antiquity and divine origin of Genesis, arguing against oral-only or retroactive revelation and for its canonical place and historical reliability.
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Political Education
Reviews essays on perception and on methods of political reasoning. Argues Christians must apply Scripture to public life, holding politicians morally accountable and promoting political education.
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Harrison on the Greek Prepositions
Reviews Fisher’s Yale Church history discourse and Harrison’s Treatise on Greek Prepositions, lauding scholarly philology, grammatical method, and its implications for Scripture interpretation.
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