Noted People of the Bible: Nehemiah
1861 Michigan Farmer issue: announces Prof. L.R. Fisk's contributions on agricultural education; covers sorghum-syrup manufacture, household recipes, and a sketch of Nehemiah.
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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.
Noted People of the Bible: Nehemiah
Noted People of the Bible: Ezra
1861 Michigan Farmer issue combining agricultural news, subscription notices and practical farm advice, plus a biographical essay on Ezra emphasizing reforms and public Scripture reading.
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Emma Dean
1861 issue of The Michigan Farmer with subscription and advertising notices, winter farming reflections praising God's works, temperance exhortation, crop and livestock letters, and recipes for sorghum syrup.
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Noted People of the Bible: Nebuchadnezzar
1861 Detroit weekly The Michigan Farmer: agricultural news, practical how‑tos (poultry dressing, bone manure, fodder values), subscription/advertising notices and seasonal essays urging temperance.
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Noted People of the Bible: Daniel
1861 Michigan Farmer newspaper: subscription notices and farming-club advice, a patriotic Civil War poem, a biographical sketch of Daniel, and reflections on home and family.
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Noted People of the Bible: Ezekiel
1861 Detroit agricultural newspaper: cistern and farming tips, horse-breeding notes, a mourning poem, and a popular biographical sketch of Ezekiel emphasizing his visions.
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Noted People of the Bible: Ebedmelech
1861 Detroit agricultural weekly on improving Michigan wheat—drainage, rotations, tillage, seed selection, manures and machinery. Also horticultural notices and a sketch of Ebedmelech.
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Noted People of the Bible: Jeremiah
1861 Michigan Farmer: practical farm tips (leaves for compost, peach-tree frost protection, washing pigs), a biographical sketch of Jeremiah, and a reflective piece on motherhood.
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Noted People of the Bible: Hezekiah
1861 Michigan Farmer issue: practical farming tips (salt as fertilizer, fruit gathering, soil tests), advice on educating farm children, and a Bible sketch of King Hezekiah.
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The Irish Heroine
1861 Detroit agricultural weekly with notices on mowers/reapers, flax and berry cultivation, a Michigan seedling grape account, farm reminiscences, and rural tales.
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James McCrea
Biographical sketches of early American Presbyterian ministers (to 1760), recounting ordinations, pastoral charges, presbytery/synod activity, congregational life, and deaths.
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The Life of James McCosh: A Record Chiefly Autobiographical
Biography of James McCosh (1811–1894), a Scottish-born philosopher, preacher, and educator who led Princeton, influenced Presbyterian education, and recorded his ancestry and career.
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James McCosh, D.D., LL.D., Litt.D.
Necrological sketch of James McCosh (1811–1894), Scottish-born philosopher and long-serving president of Princeton College; influential Presbyterian leader and author.
McCosh Memorial Number
Obituary and memorial essays on James McCosh (1811–1894), Scottish-born philosopher and Princeton president, celebrating his Christian philosophy, educational leadership, and legacy.
Philosophy of Reality: Should It Be Favored by America?
McCosh defends philosophical realism: reality is apprehended by intuition and induction, critiquing Kant and Spencer's agnosticism and urging a realist American philosophy.
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Reality: What Place it Should Hold in Foundation: A Paper Read Before the International Congress of Education of the World’s Columbian Exposition
McCosh defends philosophical realism: realities are known by immediate intuition and the senses, critiques Kantian idealism, and links realism to religion.
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Our Moral Nature: Being a Brief System of Ethics
McCosh's Our Moral Nature summarizes ethical fundamentals—moral obligation, conscience, moral law, and love—and advances natural-theology arguments for belief in God.
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Federation of the Churches
Homiletic Review (May 1891) articles on preaching (Canon Liddon) and James McCosh's 'Federation of the Churches,' contrasting parochial vs. congregational methods to spread the Gospel.
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The Capacity of the Indian to Be Educated
1891 Board of Indian Commissioners report: Indians can be educated and Christianized via mission and government schools, individual land allotments, and industrial training.
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The Prevailing Types of Philosophy: Can They Logically Reach Reality?
McCosh defends philosophical realism against contemporary agnosticism, arguing that reality is immediately known by intuition and the senses, distinguishing primary and secondary qualities, and affirming induction.
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