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The Presbyterian Reunion, North

Critical review of the 1869 Presbyterian Reunion arguing it repudiated the 1837 testimony. Examines doctrinal compromises between Old School and New School and consequences for church unity.
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Women’s Rights Women

1871 Southern Magazine critique of the women’s-rights movement, arguing suffrage and marital equality stem from radicalism and threaten social and political order.
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Theology of the Plymouth Brethren

A Presbyterian critique of Plymouth Brethren theology, challenging their rejection of church order, views on assurance, and premillennial emphases while noting their piety.
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Two Pictures

Argues against worldliness in the church, urging sober, earnest ministry, faithful discipline, and Christian devotion to resist fashions, frivolity, and moral laxity.
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What I Saw of the Battle of Chickahominy

A Confederate orderly recounts the June 27, 1862 Battle of Chickahominy, observing Lee, Jackson, staff officers (including Rev. Dabney), and troop movements near Cold Harbor.
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Hodge’s Systematic Theology

1873 review of Hodge’s Systematic Theology: lauded for learning and Calvinistic orthodoxy; criticizes poor binding, philosophical emphasis, and placing original depravity in intellect over will.
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Peculiar Religious Opinions of Southern Freedmen

Practical guidance for Sunday-school teachers: pray, study Scripture carefully, use clear applications and memory work. Also a sustained critique of Roman Catholic auricular confession, indulgences, and purgatory.
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Dr. Peyton Randolph Berkeley

Devotional hymn on God's gift of rest, a biographical sketch of Dr. Peyton R. Berkeley's integrity and stewardship, and guidance on prayer before death (cf. John 17).
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Lay-Preaching

Notes wartime suffering on South Carolina’s seaboard and defends ordained, church-appointed ministry against lay-preaching. Warns that unregulated evangelism risks doctrinal laxity.
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Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman

Argues prelacy is a political blunder forced on the church and condemns Gen. Sherman’s memoirs as justifying wartime pillage and the burning of Columbia, rejecting war’s claim to rightful spoils.
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Prelacy a Blunder

Argues that prelacy and sacramentalism wrongly make ordination and sacraments the channel of saving grace. True salvation is applied by the Word, preaching, and faith, not episcopal succession.
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The Negro and the Common School

1876 Southern editorial opposing state-funded common schools for freed Black people as wasteful and dangerous, arguing such education won’t make them fit citizens.
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The Pan-Presbyterian Alliance

Asserts Southern Presbyterians must reject the Pan-Presbyterian Alliance. Past slanders, constitutional usurpation, and demands over slavery would betray the Church’s testimony and self-respect.
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The Philosophy of Dr. Bledsoe

A Presbyterian critique of Dr. A.T. Bledsoe’s self-determination theory of the will, charging semi‑Pelagianism and defending Calvinist predestination and infant baptism.
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