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The Southern General Assembly, 1897

July 1897 Presbyterian Quarterly: a Melanchthon address and a report of the Southern General Assembly—moderator election, prohibition of women’s public speaking, missions and finances.
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Revivals of Religion

Essay on the nature and necessity of religious revivals—definitions, biblical proofs, historical examples (Britain, America), and marks of genuine, lasting revival.
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A Call to Personal Labor as a Foreign Missionary

1835 appeal urging ministers and Christians to heed God’s call to foreign missions, exposing heathen corruption and urging endurance, self-denial, cheerfulness, and zeal.
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August 29, 1835 Letter to Robert G. Scott

Notices and editorial from the Southern Religious Telegraph (1835) promoting tract evangelism and church news, with a charge on congregational duties to their pastor: love, respect, and restraint.
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Select Remains of the Rev. William Nevins, D.D.

Biographical sketch and selections from Rev. William Nevins (1797–1836), containing sermons and essays on theology, Christian life, pastoral duties, death, resurrection, and piety.
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Thoughts on Religious Education and Early Piety

1836 essay urging religious education and early piety, calling parents to train children in submission, truthfulness, industry, temperance, and enduring moral habits for eternity.
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What Will Avail in a Sinner’s Salvation

Argues that external rites cannot save; true salvation is a spiritual "new creation"—regeneration by the Holy Spirit producing illumination, faith, repentance, love and holiness.
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What Will Not Avail in a Sinner’s Salvation

Plumer warns that external rites, reformation of habits, gifts, fear, zeal, or speculative notions cannot save. Only a new creation—regeneration in Christ by the Word—avails.
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Sermons, by the Late Rev. William Nevins

Collection of sermons by Rev. W. Nevins. Opening sermon argues many live “without God in the world” — a practical atheism shown by forgetfulness of God and neglect of worship.
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Theatrical Entertainments

A Presbyterian tract condemning theatrical entertainments as occasions of temptation that lead to dissipation, intemperance, theft, wasted time, and moral ruin. Urges Christians to avoid theatres.
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Watchman of the South, Vol. 1, No. 5

1837 Richmond religious paper urging personal holiness, prayer, and charity; defends controversial theology and reports Presbyterian presbytery resolutions disowning certain synods.
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Watchman of the South, Vol. 1, No. 9

A collection of religious essays: meditation on Genesis 2:18 about companionship, contrasts between genuine piety and skepticism (Voltaire, Gibbon, Paul), deathbed conduct, and the duty of laymen in defending Christianity.
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Watchman of the South, Vol. 1, No. 30

Discusses the wickedness of sin and the unconverted heart, arguing human depravity makes works insufficient for justification and underscoring the need for salvation by grace.
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