Minutes of the Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Synod of New York of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Minutes of the Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Synod of New York of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America

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Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9781332157822

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Excerpt from Minutes of the Fortieth Annual Meeting of the Synod of New York of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America: Held in Westminster Presbyterian Church of Buffalo, October 16-18, 1922 The Rev. Albert S. Bacon, D.D., of the Presbytery of Niagara, was chosen Moderator, and was duly inducted into office. On motion it was voted that a committee of five be appointed to nominate candidates for the office of Temporary Clerk, and to report the next morning. On motion it was voted that the same committee should nominate candidates for the offices of Stated Clerk and Permanent Clerk. The Moderator subsequently appointed as this committee the Rev. George S. Webster, D.D., the Rev. J. Elmer Russell, the Rev. Malcolm L. MacPhail, Ph.D., and elders O. K. Hamilton and Dr. J. A. Hobbie. On motion it was voted that the subject of the reorganization of Synod be the order of the day for the next morning from eleven to twelve o'clock. The Rev. Samuel V. V. Holmes, D.D., pastor of Westminster Church, extended to Synod a cordial welcome, and the Moderator fitly replied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Gospel of Disunion
Gospel of Disunion

Author: Mitchell Snay

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-10-29

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780521431224

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Gospel of Disunion examines the ways in which religion influenced the development of a distinctive Southern culture and politics before the Civil War, translating the secessionist movement into a struggle of the highest moral significance. It explores such topics as the religious pro-slavery argument and the slaveholding ethic for Christian masters, the denominational schisms of the 1830s and 1840s that divided Southern Protestants along sectional lines, and the distinctive religious rationale for secession. This book is the first major attempt to fully explore the relationship between religion and the origins of Southern nationalism in all these manifestations.

The Orphan Scandal
The Orphan Scandal

Author: Beth Baron

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2014-07-09

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0804792224

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On a sweltering June morning in 1933 a fifteen-year-old Muslim orphan girl refused to rise in a show of respect for her elders at her Christian missionary school in Port Said. Her intransigence led to a beating—and to the end of most foreign missions in Egypt—and contributed to the rise of Islamist organizations. Turkiyya Hasan left the Swedish Salaam Mission with scratches on her legs and a suitcase of evidence of missionary misdeeds. Her story hit a nerve among Egyptians, and news of the beating quickly spread through the country. Suspicion of missionary schools, hospitals, and homes increased, and a vehement anti-missionary movement swept the country. That missionaries had won few converts was immaterial to Egyptian observers: stories such as Turkiyya's showed that the threat to Muslims and Islam was real. This is a great story of unintended consequences: Christian missionaries came to Egypt to convert and provide social services for children. Their actions ultimately inspired the development of the Muslim Brotherhood and similar Islamist groups. In The Orphan Scandal, Beth Baron provides a new lens through which to view the rise of Islamic groups in Egypt. This fresh perspective offers a starting point to uncover hidden links between Islamic activists and a broad cadre of Protestant evangelicals. Exploring the historical aims of the Christian missions and the early efforts of the Muslim Brotherhood, Baron shows how the Muslim Brotherhood and like-minded Islamist associations developed alongside and in reaction to the influx of missionaries. Patterning their organization and social welfare projects on the early success of the Christian missions, the Brotherhood launched their own efforts to "save" children and provide for the orphaned, abandoned, and poor. In battling for Egypt's children, Islamic activists created a network of social welfare institutions and a template for social action across the country—the effects of which, we now know, would only gain power and influence across the country in the decades to come.

"Fear God and Walk Humbly"

Author: James Mallory

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 1997-03-30

Total Pages: 720

ISBN-13: 9780817308322

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Mallory's journal spans three major periods of the South's history - the boom years before the Civil War, the rise and collapse of the Confederacy, and the period of Reconstruction after the Civil War. Mallory's interests were varied and wide ranging, but weather and agriculture dominate his journal, for agriculture was his passion. A member of the Alabama Agricultural Society, he encouraged efforts to improve. His journal describes the vicissitudes of raising and marketing various crops and animals. Concerns with cotton, corn, wheat, other grains, livestock, orchards, unusual farming methods, fertilizers, and experiments all receive comment.

In League Against King Alcohol
In League Against King Alcohol

Author: Thomas J. Lappas

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2020-02-13

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 0806166630

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Many Americans are familiar with the real, but repeatedly stereotyped problem of alcohol abuse in Indian country. Most know about the Prohibition Era and reformers who promoted passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, among them the members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. But few people are aware of how American Indian women joined forces with the WCTU to press for positive change in their communities, a critical chapter of American cultural history explored in depth for the first time in In League Against King Alcohol. Drawing on the WCTU’s national records as well as state and regional organizational newspaper accounts and official state histories, historian Thomas John Lappas unearths the story of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Indian country. His work reveals how Native American women in the organization embraced a type of social, economic, and political progress that their white counterparts supported and recognized—while maintaining distinctly Native elements of sovereignty, self-determination, and cultural preservation. They asserted their identities as Indigenous women, albeit as Christian and progressive Indigenous women. At the same time, through their mutual participation, white WCTU members formed conceptions about Native people that they subsequently brought to bear on state and local Indian policy pertaining to alcohol, but also on education, citizenship, voting rights, and land use and ownership. Lappas’s work places Native women at the center of the temperance story, showing how they used a women’s national reform organization to move their own goals and objectives forward. Subtly but significantly, they altered the welfare and status of American Indian communities in the early twentieth century.