Origin of Our Standards
Traces the Reformation's recovery of Scripture and the origin of Presbyterian standards in the work of reformers and the Westminster Assembly.
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Archives
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.
Origin of Our Standards
Education in California: An Address by the Rev. Geo. Burrowes, D.D., at the Opening of the City College of San Francisco, February 5th, 1861
1861 address urging education in California to form character: parents bear primary duty, teachers must model moral influence, and balanced study with recreation fosters healthy development.
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Impressions of Dr. Wadsworth as a Preacher
Praise of Dr. Wadsworth's preaching: devout, practical, doctrinally rich, and emotionally powerful. Highlights his Scripture-centered, Jesus-focused homiletic skill.
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A Discourse Delivered at the Funeral of James Couper, M.D.
Funeral sermon on believers 'caught up into Paradise', comforting mourners with assurance of being with Christ, angelic escort, and the resurrection hope.
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Advanced Growth in Grace
Examines revivals, warns against abuses and fanatical excesses, and urges pure, scriptural revivals with continual growth in grace and sanctification for ministers and believers.
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For Your Sakes He Became Poor
Devotional reflection urging believers to endure suffering, fix their faith on Christ's glory, and follow him sacrificially, using Luke and Joshua imagery.
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George Burrowes, D.D.
Necrological report (1895) of Princeton Theological Seminary alumni presenting obituaries and career summaries of ministers and professors, their ministries, teaching, and deaths.
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The Early Days of Union Seminary
Recollections of Union Seminary's founding (1824): Dr. J. H. Rice's leadership, Hampden‑Sidney location, early students, fundraising, and the push for southern theological education.
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Holisso Anumpa Tosholi: An English and Choctaw Definer for the Choctaw Academies and Schools
1852 English–Choctaw dictionary by Cyrus Byington for Choctaw academies and schools. First edition (1500 copies), published by the American Board for Foreign Missions.
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Grammar of the Choctaw Language
Overview of Rev. Cyrus Byington’s Choctaw Grammar and missionary career—describing alphabet, phonology, grammar features, orthography, and his New Testament translations.
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A Talk with My Class
1885 Sunday-school talk for Virginia children explaining the first four Ten Commandments, urging duty to God, prayer, Sabbath observance, and moral formation.
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Sieur George
A travelogue of California's geyser region and landscapes, followed by a New Orleans short story about the mysterious 'Sieur George' and his secluded life. Nature and local color dominate.
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Belles Desmoiselles Plantation
A Creole plantation tale: Colonel De Charleu, his seven daughters, and a disputed town property owned by 'old Charlie.' Themes of pride, family, and slavery on the Mississippi.
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Tite Poulette
1874 sketches of the American South: steamboat labor on the Mississippi and New Orleans vignettes depicting Creole life, race, poverty, and precarious livelihoods.
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Jean-ah-Poquelin
Scribner's (1875) short fiction: Jean-Ah Poquelin, a shunned Louisiana planter accused after his brother's disappearance; his marsh home descends into decay and local superstition.
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Madame Délicieuse
A travel sketch revels in discovering Jersey's rustic charms. A fiction vignette depicts Madame Délicieuse, a glamorous Creole hostess in New Orleans society.
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Café des Exilés
Nostalgic vignette of a New Orleans café for Caribbean exiles—host D'Hemecourt, his daughter Pauline, Manuel and Major Shaughnessy—exploring exile, community, and memory.
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Old Creole Days
Sketch of old Creole New Orleans: Madame Delphine, quadroon society, smugglers, and fading social splendor.
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The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life
George W. Cable's The Grandissimes: vivid Creole New Orleans scenes — a masked ball revealing social masks and the arrival of immigrant family, exposing charity, society, and tension.
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