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19 January 1907
Unknown
Memorial service program for Robert Edward Lee
Program for Memorial Service of Robert Edward Lee at Saint Paul's Church on the centenniel of his birth [1807/01/19]. Contains mostly prayers and hymns.
GLC01896.144
22 February 1907
Goodwin, William A.R. (fl. 1890-1907)
to Edward R. Archer
Circular aimed at raising funds to support the restoration and renovation of the Bruton Parish Church. "Bruton Parish, restored, will be one of the most interesting historical monuments in America . . . [T]he general public has cordially co-operated...
GLC01896.145
no date
Mission of the Church to the Yankton Sioux Indians
Apparently a section extracted from a book.
GLC02429.57
14 November 1860
[Prize Exhibition of Newbury Seminary]
GLC02181.73
9 July 1865
[Newbury Seminary Commencement Program]
GLC02181.75
[Vermont Conference Seminary Annual Bulletin]
GLC02181.78
3 July 1872
[Vermont Methodist Seminary and Female College Commencment Flyer]
GLC02181.84
1865
Wallace, James (1810-1877)
The Amendment of the federal Constitution : an Address Before the Christian Association for National Reformation, of Southern Illinois by James Wallace, in Rev. S. Wylie's Church, Eden, November 8, 1864.
Argues that the constitution needs to be amended "so as to become the fundamental law of a christian republican government." States that when the Southern states seceeded from the Union, they were not only rejecting the authority of the...
GLC01265.38
Thayer, Martin Russell (1819-1906)
The Great Victory -- Its Cost and Its Value : an Address Delivered at Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, July 4th 1865 by Hon. M. Russell Thayer.
Published by King & Baird, printers. States that through the blessings of God, it has finally been established that the country is one and indivisible. Encourages the congregation to be thankful to the men have who have fought and that peace has...
GLC01265.39
1906
Cabeen, Francis von Albade (fl. 1906)
The Colonel and the Quaker or the Return of the Forefathers
Fictional story of a colonel and a Quaker who return from colonial times to view the world as it was in the early 1900s. The colonel is Alexander Anderson and the book mentions his French and Indian War and Revolutionary War commissions (GLC01450...
GLC01450.007.04
Dublin Steam Printing Company
This is What I Want
The story of a penitent Hindu's conversion in accepting Jesus Christ. Trust in Jesus Christ and in his atonement is paramount.
GLC00687.116
American Christian Commission
Occasional Papers.
The paper includes testimonies from the field to engage commitment and religious conviction.
GLC00687.119
1863
Drisler, H. (fl. 1862-1863)
A reply to the "Bible View of Slavery, by J.H. Hopkins, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont"
One article written by H. Drisler dated 1863. Opposes and criticizes the essay written by Bishop Hopkins entitled "Bible View of Slavery", which claims that the Bible "authorized" slavery. Published by the Loyal Publication Society of New York....
GLC01265.11
1901
Kletzing, Henry F. (b. 1850)
Progress of a race or the remarkable advancement of the Afro-American...
Full title is: "Progress of a race or the remarkable advancement of the Afro-American from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust." Published by J. L. Nichols & Co. Co...
GLC06126.01
20 May 1834
United States. Congress (23d, 1st session : 1834). House.
Regulating the Indian Department
House report submitted by Horace Everett, a representative from Vermont. Contains tables and documents related to United States treaty obligations, removal of Native Americans, and missionary work. Bound in back is a large folding map of the Indian...
GLC04132.01
1 March 1900
Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)
The Future of the American Negro
Published by Small, Maynard & Company in 1899. Inscribed in 1900 on the inner front cover to Almira Thornton Goff, wife of Lyman B. Goff, an active Republican and head of the Union Wadding Company of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Includes a photograph...
GLC04297.01
16 March 1863
Treaty Between the United States of America and the Kansas Tribe of Indians
Concerns paying settlers for improvements made to Kansas land and a gift of land from the Kansas Indians to Thomas S. Huffaker in return for his missionary, educational, and counseling services. Authorized by President Abraham Lincoln. Treaty...
GLC08055.20
1869
Butler, John George (1826-1909)
Courageous Thankfulness
A sermon given on the twentieth pastoral anniversary of St. Paul's Church in Washington D.C., July 4, 1869. Inscribed "compliments of" J. Geo. Butler on the front cover.
GLC01265.37
1860
Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)
The barbarism of slavery. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state.
Given in the Senate, 4 June 1860. Condemns slavery as barbaric and criticizes various pro-slavery arguments, including that slavery was not upheld by the United States Constitution. Published by Thaddeus Hyatt, Washington, D.C. Printed as the clergy...
GLC02095.21
Chester, John (1832-1910)
The lesson of the hour : justice as well as mercy, a discourse preached on the Sabbath following the assassination of the President, in the Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C. by John Chester
Published by Washington Chronicle Print. Blames Lincoln's assassination on the rebel Southern states, slavery, and those from the North that have aided and sympathized with the rebels. States that the "duty of the hour" is to make sure that the...
GLC02913.06
5 March 1788
Sargent, Winthrop (1753-1820)
At a meeting of the directors and agents of the Ohio Company, at Mr. Rice's Tavern, in Providence, State of Rhode-Island, Wednesday, March 5, 1788.
Discusses agents, shares, and other Ohio Company business. One resolve notes, "That the Directors be requested to pay as early attention as possible to the education of youth, and the promotion of public worship, among the first settlers."
GLC02437.03815
January 1930
National Associaton for the Advancement of Colored People
20th annual report of the NAACP for the year 1929
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929. Foreword states "Uncompromising insistence upon full participation by the Negro in all phases of life is coming more and more to be the attitude of thinking and intelligent white and colored people."...
GLC06135.05
Underwood, William N. (1862-1947)
Gospel Hymns Consolidated
Owned by William N. Underwood, signed above title and on last page. Back cover separated.
GLC06377.14
1859
Richard H. Jackson's copy of the New Testament
In the back it says he carried this in his pocket during the war. It also says it was given to him by an intimate friend, Miss Mary D. Armstrong.
GLC07705.425
Swain, Leonard, 1821-1869
A nation's sorrow. A sermon preached on the Sabbath after the assassination of president Lincoln, in the Central Congregational Church, Providence, April 15, 1865
States that with the death of president Lincoln must come an oath from the people to put an end to slavery, with no compromises. Argues that justice, not vengeance must be taken against the traitors. Asserts that the country had been blinded by the...
GLC08542
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