What Think You?
Feb 1920 Presbyterian Missionary Survey presenting the Progressive Program: mobilize home & foreign missions, evangelism, study classes, Sunday Schools, and fundraising for workers.
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What Think You?
“Speak to the Children of Israel That They Go Forward”
1920 Presbyterian Missionary Survey urging a Progressive Program to expand home and foreign missions, Sunday schools, stewardship, and a concentrated fund-raising and evangelistic drive.
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The Supreme Element of the Minister’s Message
Argues that the minister bears supreme responsibility and that the heart of his message is his conception of God. Ministers must adopt a universal, missionary, fatherly view of God.
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The Greatest Present Problem of Home and Foreign Missions
Warns against 'over-churching': too many small congregations drain ministers and funds, undermining effective domestic work and neglecting foreign missions. Calls for consolidation and planning.
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Mrs. Lacy L. Little
January 1917 Presbyterian missionary journal with reports from Mid-China, Japan and Korea; home missions, juniors and women's auxiliaries; obituary and biography of Mrs. Lacy L. Little.
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Our World Obligation
Egbert W. Smith urges the church to honor its global duty: the gospel is a trust to be shared in foreign missions, condemning parochialism and selfish stewardship.
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The Cost of a Missionary
1915 Presbyterian Missionary Survey: reports on home and foreign missions, missionary costs and funding, education and school work, field letters and organizational updates.
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America’s Debt to Calvinism
Argues that Calvinism shaped American political and religious liberty, promoting human equality, church self-government, and the democratic spirit foundational to the Republic.
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Stewardship — “Show Me a Penny”
Address on Christian stewardship: believers are trustees, not owners. Warns against the deceitfulness of riches, hoarding, and inherited wealth; urges sacrificial use of possessions for God's kingdom.
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The Reflex Influence of Foreign Missions
Argues foreign missions revive and strengthen the home church—fostering prayer, faith, evangelism, New Testament discipleship and preventing provincial Christianity.
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Our Missionary Task: Its Requirements, Progress and Urgency
An impassioned appeal for expanded foreign missions: surveys seven fields' progress, needs, personnel and finances, urging increased giving and more missionaries to evangelize 25 million people.
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Union Seminary in Home Missions
Centennial tribute to Union Theological Seminary (VA), praising 100 years of training Presbyterian leaders who advanced home missions, evangelism, and Christian education.
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The Foreign Missionary Situation
Discusses Presbyterian ritual and public-worship practices, then analyzes a foreign-missionary financial crisis caused by underfunding and misuse of a new budget system. Urges pastors to lead in increasing support.
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Some Impressions of Radical Old Testament Criticism
A rebuttal of radical Old Testament Higher Criticism defending the supernatural, Mosaic authorship, and the historicity of Pentateuchal institutions, arguing critics' naturalistic presuppositions bias conclusions.
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The Charge to President-Elect W.W. Moore on Behalf of the Board of Directors
Examines John Knox’s recovery of eldership and a seminary charge urging theological education to produce Holy Spirit–empowered, characterful ministers effective for contemporary people.
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The Evangelistic Pastor
Argues pastors must prioritize evangelism and disciple-making through personal and pulpit methods. Uses Presbyterian statistics showing Southern lag vs Northern and urges pastoral reform.
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The Pastor as a Missionary Captain
Addresses urging pastors to make missions central: organize congregations, mobilize prayer and giving, set definite goals, and lead in sending and supporting foreign missionaries.
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The Creed of Presbyterians
1941 revised defense of the Presbyterian (Calvinist) creed, explaining doctrines like election and perseverance and arguing for their historical and practical vitality.
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The Creed of Presbyterians
Defends the Presbyterian creed and Westminster Standards, tracing Calvinism's history, doctrine, and ethical bearings. Explains the role of the catechisms in forming Christian life.
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