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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.

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Life and Letters of Samuel Norvell Lapsley, Missionary to the Congo Valley, West Africa, 1866–1892

Biography and collected letters/diary of Samuel N. Lapsley, a Presbyterian missionary to the Congo (1866–1892), recounting his training, journeys, work, and early death.

James Woods Lapsley ⬩ 1893

Missionary Sermon Preached Before the Synods of Pittsburgh and New York

Missionary sermon urging churches to send and authorize missionaries—using Paul and Barnabas as precedent and even advocating impressment. Emphasizes divine call, spiritual warfare, and perseverance.

Gulian Lansing ⬩ 1864

Postscript on the Egyptian Question

Contents and excerpts from The Catholic Presbyterian (1882): articles on the Egyptian question and religious toleration, Presbyterian history, foreign missions, Sabbath observance, and opium history.

Gulian Lansing ⬩ 1882

The Egyptian Question

1882 Presbyterian journal survey including 'The Egyptian Question' argues religion (Islam vs. Christianity) is central to Egypt's unrest, noting a rising Egyptian press and national sentiment.

Gulian Lansing ⬩ 1882

Egypt’s Princes: A Narrative of Missionary Labor in the Valley of the Nile

Firsthand 1860s account of United Presbyterian missionary work in Upper Egypt: Nile-boat ministry among Copts, founding schools, confronting Coptic clergy and social challenges.

Gulian Lansing ⬩ 1865

Religious Toleration in Egypt

Gulian Lansing ⬩ 1862

The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman

Lucy C. Laney urges educated Black women to lift burdens of ignorance, immorality, and prejudice by improving homes, schooling, and community leadership (kindergartens, sewing, lectures).

Lucy Craft Laney ⬩ 1899

Address Before the Women’s Meeting

Lucy C. Laney urges Black women to prioritize motherhood, moral home-making, and active child-rearing as central to family stability and the race's civic and spiritual future.

Lucy Craft Laney ⬩ 1897

The Doctrine of Original Sin, as Received and Taught by the Churches of the Reformation Stated and Defended

A learned defense of the Reformation doctrine of original sin and imputation, systematically refuting Dr. Hodge’s gratuitous-imputation theory with historical and exegetical argument.

Robert Wharton Landis ⬩ 1884

Lord, I Come to Thee

19th-century Sunday School hymn collection 'Joyful Lays' (1884) by Robert Lowry and W. Howard Doane. Devotional songs and lyrics published by Biglow & Main for Sunday schools.

Robert Wharton Landis ⬩ 1884

“Unthinkable” Propositions and Original Sin

Reviews Leonard Bacon's Genesis of the New England Churches and examines challenges to the doctrine of original sin, defending the Augustinian/Westminster view against Baur and Socinian critiques.

Robert Wharton Landis ⬩ 1875

The Cross: A Poem

A devotional epic poem recounting Christ’s passion, crucifixion, resurrection and victory over Satan, affirming the atonement and defending the Gospel.

Robert Wharton Landis ⬩ 1870

A Manual of Worship

1863 reviews: an essay on Exodus discusses the Passover, priesthood, and Israelites borrowing Egyptian jewels. A second piece criticizes a Manual of Worship, defending Presbyterian rejection of liturgy.

Robert Wharton Landis ⬩ 1863

Chaplaincy in the Army

Articles: a study of the Exodus (Passover, priesthood, 'borrowing the jewels') and a defense of Civil War army chaplaincy, urging proper regulation and pastoral care.

Robert Wharton Landis ⬩ 1863

Imputation

A theological examination of imputation: the federal headship of Adam and Christ, Reformation consensus, and disputes over original sin, justification by faith, and predestination.

Robert Wharton Landis ⬩ 1861

The Duty and Obligations of American Citizens in Relation to the Union: An Oration Pronounced in Somerset, Kentucky, on February 22, 1860

Robert Wharton Landis ⬩ 1860

The Immortality of the Soul and the Final Condition of the Wicked Carefully Considered

An 1859 theological rebuttal defending the soul's immortality against annihilationism and materialism, surveying philosophical, historical, and scriptural arguments about judgment and resurrection.

Robert Wharton Landis ⬩ 1859

Bethlehem Church and Its Pastor; or, A Narrative of the Injurious Proceedings of the Rev. Messrs. Albert Barnes and H.W. Hunt, Senr., … Bethlehem, New Jersey

Robert W. Landis's 1851 narrative defending the Bethlehem (NJ) church and pastor against alleged slander and conspiracy by Albert Barnes and H.W. Hunt, urging public inquiry.

Robert Wharton Landis ⬩ 1851

Liberty’s Triumph: A Poem

A patriotic epic poem (1851) recounting America's colonial and Revolutionary history—Puritans, battles, Washington, and the triumph of liberty.