Southern Presbyterian Leaders, 1683-1911 (White)

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White, Henry Alexander

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476

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Hardcover

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White’s fascinating biographical sketches of leaders in the Southern Presbyterian Church, from the establishment of Presbyterianism in the American Colonies in the 1680s to the beginning of the twentieth century, has never been superseded. The better known names read like a roll-call of many of the finest representatives of evangelical piety and experimental Calvinism in America: Samuel Davies, Archibald Alexander, Daniel Baker, William S. Plumer, James Henley Thornwell, John L. Girardeau, Benjamin M. Palmer, Robert L. Dabney, Thomas J. (‘Stonewall’) Jackson and Thomas E. Peck. But many lesser-known names are also brought before the reader, from Francis Makemie in the 1680s to leaders still living when White wrote his account in 1911.

The pages of this book teem with fervent evangelists, faithful pastors, learned professors, accomplished statesmen, and soldiers likely to inspire fear in the heart of any tyrant, all owing the inspiration of their lives to the saving truths they learned from the Scriptures and the Westminster Standards.

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Table of Contents:

1.	PART I
	SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN LEADERS OF THE COLONIAL PERIOD
	1683-1774
	Francis Makemie Organizes the First American Presbytery	9
	Early Scots and Huguenots in the Carolinas and Virginia	22
	The Coming of the Scots to the American Colonies	28
	John Craig, First Pastor in the Western Part of Virginia	32
	Old Side and New Side Parties Among the Presbyterians	36
	John Blair and John Brown in the Southern part of the Valley of Virginia	38
	William Robinson and John Roan in the Piedmont Section of Virginia	41
	Samuel Davies Founds the Hanover Presbytery	44
	David Rice and James Waddell in the Northern and Western Parts of Virginia	58
	Hugh McAden’s Journey Through Virginia and the Carolinas	65
	Alexander Craighead and the Seven Churches of Mecklenburg in North Carolina	73
	John Witherspoon, of the Lower Santee River, and James Campbell, of the Upper Cape Fear River	79
	Archibald Simpson, Evangelist in the Region Between Charles Town and Savannah	86
	William Richardson of the Waxhaws in South Carolina	90
	Henry Patillo and David Caldwell Organize the Presbytery of Orange in the Carolinas	93
	Charles Cummings and Samuel Doak on the Holston River	100
2.	PART II
	SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN LEADERS DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
	1774-1789
	The Hanover Presbytery Leads the Fight in Behalf of Freedom in Religion	104
	Presbyterian Riflemen Win the Battle of Point Pleasant (1774)	113
	The Mountain Men of Virginia and North Carolina Lead the Way to Independence	116
	William Graham, Founder of the Liberty Hall Academy in Virginia	124
	Samuel Stanhope Smith, John Blair Smith and – Hampden Sidney College	140
	The Winning of the Battle at King’s Mountain.	144
	Presbyterian Riflemen, Led by Francis Marion, Assail the British in the Eastern Parts of South Carolina	154
	The Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse	158
	The Winning of the Fight for Religious Freedom	165
	Revivals of Religion that Followed the War of the Revolution	171
3.	PART III
	SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN LEADERS
	1789-1861
	Archibald Alexander, President of Hampden-Sidney College, and First Teacher of Theology in Princeton Seminary	181
	Moses Hoge, President of the College and Teacher of Theology at Hampden-Sidney, in Virginia	193
	Moses Waddell and the Willington Academy in South Carolina	199
	Joseph Caldwell and the University of North Carolina	203
	Presbyterians in Kentucky and the Revival of 1800	206
	John Holt Rice and the Organization of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia	212
	George Addison Baxter Extends the Work of Washington College Among the People of the South and Southwest.	221
	A Journey Among the Churches of the Synod of Virginia in the Year 1800	232
	A Journey Among the Churches of the Carolinas and Georgia and the Southwest in the Year 1800	239
	Thomas Goulding, George Howe and Aaron W. Leland, Founders of Columbia Theological Seminary	253
	John Forrest and Thomas Smyth, Pastors in Charleston, South Carolina	261
	Robert Hall Morrison Founds Davidson College	267
	Daniel Baker, Evangelist of the South and Southwest	273
	John McElhenny, the Apostle of Western Virginia	280
	William Swan Plumer, Preacher and Teacher of the Word	286
	Charles Colcock Jones, John B. Adger and John L. Girardeau	293
	James Henley Thornwell as Preacher and Teacher	303
4.	PART IV
	SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN LEADERS SINCE 1861
	James H. Thornwell Sets Forth the Principles of the Southern Presbyterians	322
	A Journey Among the Southern Churches During the War Between the North and the South	330
	A Journey Among the Churches of Kentucky and Missouri	348
	Benjamin Morgan Palmer	359
	Robert Lewis Dabney	382
	John Leighton Wilson	391
	Jacob Henry Smith	409
	Stuart Robinson	414
	John Newton Waddel	421
	Moses Drury Hoge	426
	Stonewall Jackson, D. H. Hill and Thomas R. R. Cobb as Representatives of Southern Presbyterian Elders and Deacons	446
	Some Presbyterian Leaders of Our Own Time.	454
	PRINCIPAL SOURCES
	Biographies	462
	Church Histories	463
	Collected Works	464
	General Histories	465
	Historical Collections	465
	Local Histories	465
	Memoirs	466
	Newspapers	466
	Periodicals	467
	Records of Church Courts	467
	Minutes	467
	Special Accounts	467

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"I am profoundly thankful that the Banner of Truth has republished this volume, which has become extremely rare and is now unknown to many. I cannot imagine a more accessible or useful introductory work for those wishing to become more familiar with the rich theological heritage of Southern Presbyterianism. The subject matter speaks to a much wider audience than the descendants (literal and spiritual) of the men described. Indeed the reissue of White’s work ought to be welcomed by all friends of robust, warm, evangelical, Reformed Christianity, for the stalwarts about whom he writes offer much timeless biblical wisdom to contemporary Christians ministering in the context of a crumbling western civilization." — LIGON DUNCAN