Consolation
An essay arguing that Christian faith alone provides true consolation in suffering: by trusting God's providence, trials refine believers and yield eternal good.
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Consolation
God’s Rest, Our Rest
Defends the doctrine of the Trinity against objections, urging heart renewal to receive it. Then expounds 'God's rest'—the Sabbath of creation and believers' rest in Christ (Heb. 3–4).
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Life Out of Death
Argues the early Fathers' witness to the Trinity and expounds Christ's atoning death as a victory of life through death, applying it to conversion, suffering, and sanctification.
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Our Problem
Articles argue for strict Christian Sabbath observance and debate church duties toward African Americans, criticizing the 'separate' system and urging mixed, covenantal church polity.
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Hazel: Or, Know Thyself
Sermon-like biography of Hazael: his rise, treachery, and Elisha's rebuke. Urges self-knowledge, repentance, and warns against ingratitude toward Christ.
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The Knowledge of God, as Obtained from Scripture and from Nature
Essay argues Scripture and nature give converging but imperfect knowledge of God; scientific limits (instruments, language, concepts) make natural theology provisional.
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Lessons About Salvation: A Second Series of Plantation Sermons
1860 Plantation Sermons urging masters to instruct enslaved people in Christian worship. Practical guidance for Sabbath services, singing, prayer, and evangelistic pastoral care.
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Hymn-Book Making
Urges ministerial candidates to engage personally in foreign missions and analyzes hymn-book revision, defining proper hymn subjects, limits, and the Psalms' role in worship.
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Life and Times of Bertrand Du Guesclin: A History of the Fourteenth Century
An 1866 review contrasts Puritanism and Presbyterianism and reviews Life and Times of Bertrand du Guesclin, lamenting medieval war atrocities and warning against sensuous, outward religion.
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Life and Times of Dr. Spring
Southern Presbyterian Review rebuts Dr. Spring's Northern charges about slavery and secession, defends Southern motives, and appeals to providence, patience, and Christian submission.
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Upham’s Interior Life, and the Doctrine of Holiness
Critical review of Upham's Interior Life, opposing its claim of entire sanctification attainable in this life and defending progressive, unfinished sanctification based on Scripture.
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The Reign of Law
Argues that God's providence and the 'reign of law' are compatible, exploring relations between natural law and the supernatural and defending divine governance over creation.
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Lecky’s History of European Morals
Review of debates on science and Scripture: assesses whether modern physical science or naturalistic explanations (e.g. Lecky) undermine revelation, arguing for Christianity's divine basis.
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God and the Bible
Southern Presbyterian Review rebuts Bledsoe and Matthew Arnold, defending the reality of biblical miracles, a personal God, and the resurrection against skeptical criticism.
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A Step in Advance
1877 Presbyterian essays on church history and missions argue postwar ministry to African Americans should be organized like foreign missions: separate, self-governing churches led by native pastors.
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The Light: Is It Waning?
1879 prize essay asks if Christianity's 'light' is waning. Reviews past triumphs, diagnoses moral and church decline, and urges renewed conviction in Christ's lordship.
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The Duty of the Church to Evangelize the World, With the Means and Motives for the Work: A Sermon Preached for the Board of Foreign Missions … May 6, 1866
1866 sermon urging the Church to evangelize the world (Rom. 10:13–15), calling for missionary sending/support and sacrificial giving to spread the universal Gospel.
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Memorial of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Cyrus Dickson, D.D., Late Secretary of the Board of Home Missions
Memorial biography of Rev. Cyrus Dickson, D.D., recounting his ancestry, pastoral ministry, and service as Secretary of the Board of Home Missions. Contains funeral addresses, tributes, and historical sketches.
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The Goodwill Memorial: Or, The First One Hundred and Fifty Years of the Goodwill Presbyterian Church, Montgomery, Orange County, N.Y.
A concise historical memorial of Goodwill Presbyterian Church (Montgomery, Orange Co., NY), documenting its first 150 years: founding, elders, records, anniversary addresses and genealogies.
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