A Decade Of Controversies And Sc
During the period from 1835 to 1845 the spirit of schism seemed to be in the air. In this period no one of the larger organizations of churches was free from agitating controversies, and some of the most important of them were rent asunder by expl... After The War
When the five years of rending and tearing had passed, in which slavery was dispossessed of its hold upon the nation, there was much to be done in reconstructing and readjusting the religious institutions of the country. Throughout the seceding... Antecedents Of Permanent Christi
We have briefly reviewed the history of two magnificent schemes of secular and spiritual empire, which, conceived in the minds of great statesmen and churchmen, sustained by the resources of the mightiest kingdoms of that age, inaugurated by soldi... Close Of The Colonial Era The Ge
The quickening of religious feeling, the deepening of religious conviction, the clearing and defining of theological opinions, that were incidental to the Great Awakening, were a preparation for more than thirty years of intense political and warl... Conflicts Of The Church With Pub
The transition from establishment to the voluntary system for the support of churches was made not without some difficulty, but with surprisingly little. In the South the established churches were practically dead before the laws establishing them... Organized Beneficence
When the Presbyterian General Assembly, in 1803, made a studious review of the revivals which for several years had been in progress, especially at the South and West, it included in its Narrative the following observations: The Assembly o... Providential Preparations For Th
SPIRITUAL REVIVAL THROUGHOUT CHRISTENDOM, AND ESPECIALLY IN THE CHURCH OF SPAIN. The heroic discovery of America, at the close of the fifteenth century after Christ, has compelled the generous and just admiration of the world; but the grandeur o... Reconstruction
Seven years of war left the American people exhausted, impoverished, disorganized, conscious of having come into possession of a national existence, and stirred with anxious searchings of heart over the question what new institutions should succee... Spanish Conquest The Propagation
It is a striking fact that the earliest monuments of colonial and ecclesiastical antiquity within the present domain of the United States, after the early Spanish remains in Florida, are to be found in those remotely interior and inaccessible high... Tendencies Toward A Manifestatio
The three centuries of history which we have passed under rapid review comprise a series of political events of the highest importance to mankind. We have seen, from our side-point of view, the planting, along the western coast of the Atlantic Oce... The American Church On The Eve O
By the end of one hundred years from the settlement of Massachusetts important changes had come upon the chain of colonies along the Atlantic seaboard in America. In the older colonies the people had been born on the soil at two or three generatio... The Church In Theology And Liter
The rapid review of three crowded centuries, which is all that the narrowly prescribed limits of this volume have permitted, has necessarily been mainly restricted to external facts. But looking back over the course of visible events, it is not im... The Civil War--antecedents And C
It has been observed that for nearly half a generation after the reaction began from the fervid excitement of the Millerite agitation no season of general revival was known in the American church. These were years of immense material prosperity,... The Dutch Calvinist Colony On Th
THEY BOTH FALL UNDER THE SHADOW OF GREAT BRITAIN. When the Englishman Henry Hudson, in the Dutch East India Company's ship, the Half-moon, in September, 1609, sailed up the River of Mountains as far as the site of Albany, looking for the northwe... The Great Awakening
It was not wholly dark in American Christendom before the dawn of the Great Awakening. The censoriousness which was the besetting sin of the evangelists in that great religious movement, the rhetorical temptation to glorify the revival by intensif...

Providential Preparations For Th Reconstruction The Second Awakening Organized Beneficence Conflicts Of The Church With Pub A Decade Of Controversies And Sc The Great Immigration The Civil War--antecedents And C

Providential Preparations For Th Reconstruction The Second Awakening Organized Beneficence Conflicts Of The Church With Pub A Decade Of Controversies And Sc The Great Immigration The Civil War--antecedents And C