Blaikie, W. G. [Editor]. The Catholic Presbyterian: An International Journal - Ecclesiastical and Religious. Vol. IV. July-December, 1880. New York: A. D. F. Randolph & Co., 1880. 1st Edition.
Dark green hardcover cloth, 6 x 9 ½, 476 clean pages, tight, short surface split in cloth at the top of the spine, light scuffing, good condition. Good. Hardcover. [207]
This publication was produced as a result of the 1877 First General Presbyterian Council, held at Edinburgh. The periodical ran from July, 1879 to December, 1883. The contents are world-wide in scope, embracing missionary work, Presbyterian history, biography, doctrine, psalmody, politics, &c.
Some examples: Theologians of the Day - Edmond de Pressense; Old English Words in the Bible; French Evangelisation in Canada; A Presbyterian College in America [Princeton], by President M’Cosh; The First Scottish Missionary in South Africa; Israel and Egypt according to the Monuments; The Evangelist and His Work; The earliest collection of Scottish Proverbs; The Origin of Ulster Presbyterianism; Heroes of the Reformation - George Wishart; Bohemia after the Death of Huss; The Peter of History and the Peter of Fiction, by Philip Schaff; The Presbyterian Church in Wales; Church Jurisdiction and American Law; The Church of the United Brethren; The Second General Presbyterian Council<P>A Plea for the Higher Education of Women; &c., &c., &c.