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History of Presbyterian and Reformed church governance, congregations, ministers, and theology. See the following related collections: Presbyterian General Assemblies; Church buildings; Protestant Reformation; and Sermons. Featured image: Synod of Catawba clergy and lay commissioners.

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Title:
Calvin Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) church bulletin, 1904.
Creator:
Calvin Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) (creator)
Subject names:
Calvin Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topics:
Church bulletins--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia., African American Presbyterian churches--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.), Philadelphia (Pa.)--Church history.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:357732
Title:
Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) church program, 1872.
Creator:
Ashmead, Henry Buckley. (printer)
Subject names:
Second Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topics:
Church history--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Church history.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:293112
Title:
Church Plans of Board of Church Erection.
Creator:
E. Wells Sackett & Rankin. (printer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of the Church Erection Fund--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of the Church Erection Fund.
Topics:
Church development, New--United States--19th century., Presbyterian church buildings--United States--19th century., Church architecture--Designs and plans., Church buildings--Designs and plans.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280873
Title:
A thanksgiving sermon, preached January 1, 1808, in St. Thomas's, or the African Episcopal Church, Philadelphia
Description:
By Absalom Jones, Rector of the said church.
Creator:
Jones, Absalom, 1746-1818. (author)
Subject names:
St. Thomas' Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Topics:
Slavery--United States--19th century., Antislavery movements--United States--19th century., Slavery--Religious aspects--Christianity., Slave trade--United States--19th century., Sermons, American.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:177233
Title:
Himnos del evangelio ordenado y redactado por J.C.H.
Creator:
Hill, John Clark, 1849-1919. (author)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Hymns., Spanish language--Texts., Hymns, Spanish.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:166472
Title:
Man's chief end: glorifying God : a sermon preached January 11, 1885, and: Eternal enjoyment : a sermon preached January 18, 1885.
Description:
Two sermons given by Rev. John H. Barrows, D.D. in January 1885 at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, Illinois.
Creator:
Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902. (author), Shepard & Johnston. (Chicago) (publisher)
Subject names:
First Presbyterian Church (Chicago, Ill.), Westminster Assembly (1643-1652). Shorter catechism.
Topics:
Sermons, American., Theological anthropology--Christianity.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150634
Title:
Why should I join the church?
Description:
Written by Abbott E. Kittredge, pastor of Third Presbyterian Church in Chicago.
Creator:
Kittredge, Abbott E. (Abbott Eliot), 1834-1912. (author), Whiting, C. H. (publisher)
Subject names:
Third Presbyterian Church (Chicago, Ill.)
Topics:
Evangelistic work., Church membership.
Geographic subjects:
Chicago (Ill.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150597
Title:
Address of the Rev. John H. Barrows, D.D., at the Sixty-First Anniversary of the American Sunday-School Union 1885.
Description:
Rev. John H. Barrows' speech given at Clinton Avenue Reformed Church in Newark on May 17, 1885 in celebration of the sixty-first anniversary of the American Sunday School Union.
Creator:
Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902. (author)
Subject names:
American Sunday-School Union--Anniversaries, etc., Clinton Avenue Reformed Church (Newark, N.J.)
Topics:
Evangelistic work., Sunday schools.
Geographic subjects:
Newark (N.J.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:150576
Title:
Shall unbelief win?
Creator:
Macartney, Clarence Edward Noble, 1879-1957. (author)
Subject names:
Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 1878-1969.
Topics:
Modernist-fundamentalist controversy.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:141077
Title:
"The Message," December 1904.
Description:
Volume II, No. 1. Includes "The service of public prayer;" "Politics and church adherents;" "The vicissitudes of life;" "Prayer-perfect (poem);" "Organizations and societies;" and "Church notes."
Subject names:
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Kars, Ottawa, Ont.)--Periodicals., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Liturgy., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Book of common worship (1906)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Periodicals., Presbyterian Church--Liturgy., Worship programs.
Geographic subjects:
Ottawa (Ont.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:131585
Title:
Brief Statement of the Reformed Faith.
Description:
For a better understanding of our doctrinal beliefs, published by authority of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1902.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly., Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Creeds., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Doctrines.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Creeds., Presbyterian Church--Doctrines.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:131521
Title:
Revised copy of "Forms and Services,", 1904.
Description:
Partial report of the Special Committee on Forms and Services, annotated by Henry Van Dyke.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Forms and Services. (author), Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933. (annotator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Forms and Services., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Book of common worship (1906), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Liturgy.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Liturgy--Texts., Presbyterian Church--Prayers and devotions., Worship programs.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:131054
Title:
Proofs regarding "Forms and Services," "Book of Common Worship," and related materials, 1903-1906 and undated.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Forms and Services. (author), Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Forms and Services., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Book of common worship (1906), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Liturgy.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Liturgy--Texts., Presbyterian Church--Liturgy committees., Presbyterian Church--Prayers and devotions., Worship programs.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130552
Title:
"Forms and Services" with annotations, 1904.
Description:
Partial report of the Special Committee on Forms and Services. From Rev. Dr. R.W. Peach, Camden, N.J.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Forms and Services. (author), Peach, Robert Westly, 1863-1936. (annotator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Forms and Services., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Liturgy., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Prayers and devotions., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Book of common worship (1906)
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Liturgy--Texts., Presbyterian Church--Liturgy committees., Worship programs., Presbyterian Church--Prayers and devotions.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130523
Title:
"The Book of Common Worship," 1906.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Forms and Services. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Forms and Services., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Book of common worship (1906), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Liturgy., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Prayers and devotions.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Liturgy--Texts., Presbyterian Church--Prayers and devotions., Worship programs.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130322
Title:
Church Service Society Papers, No. 1, 1899.
Description:
The report of an inquiry into the present conduct of public worship and the various orders of worship in actual use.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Church Service Society. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Liturgy.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Liturgy., Worship programs.
Geographic subjects:
United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130224
Title:
"The Church Eclectic," August 1906.
Description:
Partial issue, Volume 38, No. 5. Includes "The Presbyterian prayer book," "Prayer a reasonable practice, essential to higher life," "Henry Barclay, D.D., the second rector of Trinity Church in the city of New York"; and advertisements.
Creator:
Lowndes, Arthur, 1858-1917. (editor)
Subject names:
Barclay, Henry, 1715-1764., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Book of common worship (1906), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.--Liturgy.
Topics:
Episcopal Church--Periodicals., Religion--Periodicals., Presbyterian Church--Liturgy., Worship programs.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:130195
Title:
A Thanksgiving sermon preached in the Presbyterian Church, Greeneville, Tenn.
Description:
A Thanksgiving sermon preached by Rev. Ira Morey in the Presbyterian Church, Greeneville, Tennessee, Thursday, November 30, 1854. Published by request.
Creator:
Morey, Ira, 1814-1864. (author)
Subject names:
First Presbyterian Church (Greeneville, Tenn.)
Topics:
Providence and government of God Sermons., Presbyterian Church Sermons., Thanksgiving Day sermons.
Geographic subjects:
Greeneville (Tenn.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116247
Title:
A discourse delivered at the opening of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, July 4, 1852 by John C. Backus.
Description:
The published discourse delivered at the opening of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, in Baltimore on July 4, 1852 by John C. Backus. Included is the plat of the graveyard on which the church is built.
Creator:
Woods, John H. (Printmaker), Guiteau, S. (Publisher)
Subject names:
Westminster Presbyterian Church (Baltimore, Md.), Backus, John C. (John Chester), 1810-1884.
Topics:
Cemeteries--Maryland--Baltimore., Church dedication sermons--Maryland--Baltimore.
Geographic subjects:
Baltimore (Md.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:115560
Title:
Synod of Blue Ridge minutes, 1956.
Description:
Minutes of the of the Blue Ridge Synod of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., 49th annual session held at Miller Memorial Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, Alabama, October 10-12, 1956.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of Blue Ridge. (author)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of Blue Ridge.
Topics:
African American Presbyterians--History--United States.
Geographic subjects:
Birmingham (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:111407

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