The Service of Prayer
Essay on public/joint prayer arguing for vernacular, Scripture-based preference for free (extemporaneous) prayer over rigid liturgy; discusses posture and practical worship guidance.
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The Service of Prayer
Montevideo-Maybank: Some Memoirs of a Southern Christian Household in Olden Times; or, The Family Life of Rev. Charles Colcock Jones, D.D.
Memoir of Rev. Charles Colcock Jones' Southern Christian household, emphasizing parental formation of character, domestic piety, child training, servants, and ministry to slaves.
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That Abominable Thing
Calls ministers to live Christlike lives and preach the full Gospel (Christ's deity, atonement, Spirit). Warns pulpits and press desensitize consciences to sin.
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Reconciliation By Death — Salvation By Life
Argues that Christ's death reconciles sinners and His risen life secures salvation. Calls pastors to preach both the crucified and living Savior for true assurance.
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Symposium on the Institutional Church: Not the Ideal Church
Essays urging preachers to sermonize whole Biblical books and critiquing the "Institutional Church" for diluting pastoral influence by adding secular departments, departing from NT patterns.
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The Institutional Church: A Candid Critique
Examines theology and the divine provision of ministers (Eph.4; Ps.68) and offers a candid critique of the 'institutional' church blending sacred ministry with social services.
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Colleges and Universities as Factors in a Nation’s Life
Addresses misconceptions of Presbyterianism and its Calvinistic identity. Argues that many accessible, less costly colleges (not a few elite universities) best promote a nation's moral, intellectual, and material life.
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Plantation Life Before Emancipation
Defense of antebellum plantation life, highlighting master–slave relations, religious instruction, and Presbyterian missionary efforts among enslaved Blacks.
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Sacred Song as a Part of Sabbath Worship
Essays treating baptism as a sacrament (per the Larger Catechism), distinguishing ritual and Spirit-wrought baptism, and defending sacred song in Sabbath worship with biblical and historical proof.
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The Value of the Christian Pulpit
A review defends belief in a personal God and the Spirit's witness against atheism. An essay argues the Christian pulpit educates intellect, fosters morality, and upholds social order.
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Stories from Virginia History for the Young
A school-oriented collection of Virginia historical sketches—from Jamestown and Pocahontas to Bacon's Rebellion and Civil War figures—aimed to teach history and moral lessons.
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Rome
Two essays: one on ancient Egypt's preoccupation with the afterlife, the other on modern Rome's superstitions and abuses—relics, images, indulgences, and papal temporal power critiqued.
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Under the Pruning-Knife: A Story of Southern Life
Southern tale of loss, marriage, and Christian growth. The 'pruning-knife' metaphor shows God's discipline shaping character, family duty, and hope amid suffering.
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“Sis”
An 1886 Harper's excerpt mixing travel/industry notes with a short fiction, 'Sis'—a Black nurse who lovingly teaches and preaches to little Lily, blending childlike humor and revival zeal.
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A Georgian at the Opera
Two humorous 1885 Harper's sketches: a family's comic debate about moving to a prairie ranch, and a Georgian's rustic, dialect account of attending the opera with uproarious musical scenes.
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Pantomimes; or, Wordless Poems, For Elocution and Calisthenic Classes
1882 manual of pantomimic exercises for elocution and physical culture. Guides facial and bodily expression with music, exercises, and classical and biblical illustrations.
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History of Virginia, For the Use of Schools
School history of Virginia covering early explorations, Roanoke, Native–English encounters, Captain John Smith, and colonial settlement, with review questions for students.
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Women, or, Chronicles of the Late War
Vivid vignettes by Mary T. Magill of Southern women's homefront experiences in the Civil War—hospital care, hardship, and devotion to the Confederate 'Lost Cause.'
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The Holcombes: A Story of Virginia Home-Life
An 1871 Virginia novel depicting antebellum home life. It follows Margaret Holcombe's coming-of-age, her mourning for her mother, and household upheaval when her father remarries.
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David Magie, D.D.
Biographical sketches of 19th-century American Presbyterian ministers detailing education, pastoral labors, character, revival growth, missionary service, and deaths (Presbyterian Almanac, 1866).
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