A Message of Gratitude
Addresses from the 1902 Student Volunteer Movement convention promoting world-wide evangelization, gratitude, unity, and self-sacrificing missionary commitment.
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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.
A Message of Gratitude
Why Should the Making of Jesus Christ Known to All People Be the Commanding Purpose in the Life of Every Christian?
A passionate address urging every Christian to make proclaiming Jesus Christ the chief purpose of life. Obedience to the Great Commission vitalizes both church and soul.
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The Young Men’s Christian Association in a Theological Seminary
Argues for YMCA-style organizations in theological seminaries to deepen students' personal piety, promote missions, and foster interseminary cooperation with faculty oversight.
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Address of Elder Andrew Stevenson, of Chicago, Ill.
May 1918 Missionary Survey: mission reports and Andrew Stevenson's address urging Christian education and planned bequests to fund ministerial relief and missions.
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Fifty Years in One Home — Lafayette Avenue Church Celebrates Anniversary
An essay on pastoral sympathy—urging clergy to 'weep with' and 'rejoice with' their flock—and a report on Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church's 50th anniversary, its pastors and mission.
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Chicago: Pre-Eminently a Presbyterian City
1907 booklet documenting Chicago's Presbyterian leaders, institutions, and directories to inspire unity, Christian service, and greater lay-minister cooperation in the city.
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Presbyterian Government
Concise manual on Presbyterian government outlining the Session, Presbytery, Synod, General Assembly, officers, organization, judicatory rules, and disciplinary procedures. Practical reference for students and church officers.
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The Presbyterian Churches: Divisions and Unions, in Scotland, Ireland, Canada and America
Concise history of Presbyterianism in Scotland: Reformation origins, establishment of the Kirk, covenants and Covenanters, General Assembly and Book of Discipline, plus later divisions and unions.
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Presbyterianism: Divisions and Union in Scotland, Ireland, Canada and America
Survey of Presbyterianism's origins, divisions, and unions across Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and America. Traces the Reformation, covenants, schisms, and church unions with diagrams.
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If I Had Only One Sermon to Preach: Sermons by Twenty-One Ministers
An anthology of twenty-one ministers' sermons on the single most important message they'd preach. Joseph F. Newton's lead sermon declares "God is love" and the assurance of God's abiding love.
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A Son of the Bowery: The Life Story of an East Side American
Charles Stelzle's memoir of growing up on New York's East Side, recounting poverty, labor organizing, and his church-centered social work and ministry among workingmen.
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Why Prohibition!
A 1918 plea arguing that alcohol wastes food, labor and life, undermines the war effort, and must be abolished through prohibition and public education.
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The Call of the New Day to the Old Church
Charles Stelzle urges the old church to adapt to modern social needs, welcome prophetic voices, and address social and economic root causes rather than mere charity. He calls for inclusive reform.
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The Gospel of Labor
Charles Stelzle's The Gospel of Labor presents a Christian vision of work, affirming the dignity and vocation of every worker. It calls employers, employees, and the church to justice, service, and social reform.
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The Church and the Labor Movement
Examines the church's response to the rising labor movement, socialism, and unions; urges Christians to engage with working-class needs and social reform.
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The Church and Labor
Charles Stelzle (1910) examines labor's distrust of the church, the democratic spirit of the labor movement, and urges the church to understand and cooperate with labor.
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Letters from a Workingman
First-person letters from a longtime mechanic describing shop life: class divisions, strict rules, piecework pressures, rising socialism, strikes, and the struggle for fair wages.
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The Spirit of Social Unrest
Examines urban social unrest—rapid city growth, immigrant influx, labor organizing, and rising socialism—and urges the Church to address the material and spiritual needs of the masses.
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Christianity’s Storm Centre: A Study of the Modern City
Examines urban social problems and the church's duty: engaging labor, serving slums, and creating social centers. Advocates institutional churches combining evangelism with social service.
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“Labor Sunday”
1907 Assembly Herald urges Presbyterian churches to reach workingmen: observe Labor Sunday, distribute leaflets, engage unions through fraternal delegates and shop meetings.
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