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Highlights Among Recent Accessions at the PCA Historical Center:
25 October 2018

The Relation of Baptized Children to The Church.
by Rev. Robert Davidson, D.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Huntington, Long Island.

Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1866.
[click here for a PDF we've prepared of this book]
Contents:
I. Introductory—The Medium between Two Extremes.
II. Baptism a Covenant Birthright.
III. Baptism not a Saving Ordinance.
IV. Baptism a Sign and Seal, under the Gospel of the Covenant.
V. Baptism the Rite of Initiation into the Christian Commonwealth.
VI. Baptism places Children under the watch and care of the Church.
VII. Means and Agencies—The Public Prayers of the Church—The Special Exhortations of the Pulpit—Catechizing—Family Worship and Discipline.
VIII. The Sunday-School.
IX. Supervision of Parents by the Church—The Sense of Moral and Individual Restraint.
X. The Salvation of the Soul steadily kept in view by the Church.
XI. Recapitulation—A Word to Ministers, Parents, and Baptized Children.

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Ha, Polly, English Presbyterianism: 1590-1640. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press, 2011. Hb, xiv, 301 p.

PART I. ENGLISH PRESBYTERIANISM AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
1. Royal Supremacy.
2. Anti-Episcopacy.
PART II: THE EVOLUTION OF ENGLISH ECCLESIOLOGY.
3. The Visible Church.
4. Common Consent.
5. Presbyterian "Promiscuity."
PART III: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE.
6. Presbyterianism in Practice?
7. Popular Presbyterianism.
Conclusion.
Appendix: Walter Travers's Papers
Bibliographic Note: The Provenance of Walter Travers's Papers.
Notes.
Bibliography.
General Index.
Biblical Citations.

A Good Work Begun: Recalling the first fifty years of Westminster Presbyterian Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1968-2018. Lancaster, PA: The church, 2018. Pb, 81 p.

Pastor's Preface
Chapter 1: The Early Years
Chapter 2: Worship
Chapter 3: Teaching and Learning
Chapter 4: Reaching Out
Chapter 5: Fellowship
Chapter 6: Governing the Visible Church
Chapter 7: Building the Lord's House
Appendices:
—Organizing Committee
—Charter Members
—Why a Meetinghouse?

[History covering 1968-2003 written by William A. Mehler, Jr., Ruling Elder and history covering 2003-2018 written by Dr. Michael A. Rogers, senior pastor.]

Additional history materials were also received from Pastor Rogers.
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This last of the items received today, End of the Rope, has been added to our collection specifically because of the account of the pastor who ministered the Gospel to the accused while in jail. While not actually named in this book, that pastor was the Rev. David K. Myers, a Bible Presbyterian Synod pastor laboring in North Dakota, and the Historical Center holds a small collection under his name and that of his son, PCA pastor David T. Myers.
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Johnson, Dennis Edward, Esq., End of the Rope: The True Story of North Dakota's Last Lynching. Watford City, ND: Pioneer Museum of McKenzie County, 2009. Pb, 54 p.; 22 cm.

The End of a Rope for a Confessed Murderer
What Became of the Haven Family
Unraveling a Dark Mystery
The Contract Letter
Initial Arrest
Following the Arrest
Tricks Trip Up Bannon
The Attempted Bluff & First Confession
Finding the Bodies
Bannon Confesses for Second Time
Bannon's Last Confession
Summary of the Confessions
A Community Reacts
Cell Door Gives Way
Makie Relates Experience
Lynching Aftermath
Why Did the Lynching Take Place?
A Hangman's Noose
Would Bannon Have Been Convicted?
The Three Confessions of Charles Bannon

26 April 2018
Received today from the author, Mr. Paul Porwall, his most recent work, "In My Trials, Lord, Walk with Me":
What an Antebellum Parish Register Reveals about Race and Reconciliation.
[ISBN 978-0-692-06931-8]. The PCA Historical Center was pleased to supply a photograph of the Rev. Charles Colcock Jones for use in this book [p. 61].
Click on the image of the back cover to view a larger, readable image.
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1 March 2018
Several nice additions to our collection on Australian Presbyterianism with these titles, all by Dr. Rowland S. Ward. These were ordered directly from the author, so we took advantage of the opportunity and purchased several other of his works:
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