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1866-Reformed Presbytery.-This session includes much correspondence with the Old Dissenters and Dr. John Cunningham from Britain. The Causes for Fasting include observations on the corruption of worship and the decline of vital religion. The Causes for Thanksgiving include the establishing of fraternal relations with those in Britain. There is much about faithful testimony bearing in these minutes.
Read More1852-Gilbert McMaster.-A comprehensive view of the benefits of the use of the Psalms in the worship of God together with the importance of retaining them in order to bring genuine ecclesiastical union and communion.
Read More1814-Alexander McLeod.-A thorough discussion of the identities of the two beasts-the civil and the ecclesiastical. In the course of this lecture, M'Leod makes a excellent case for applying the number of the beast (666) to Latinus, the Latin empire-civil and ecclesiastical.
Read More1814-Alexander McLeod.-In this final lecture, M'Leod describes the spiritual battle of the witnessing church and its characteristics. While some of his conjectures on dating have proved to be mistaken, his observations have much pertinence for those witnesses who are trying to discern the date of the downfall of antichrist.
Read More1887-Reformed Presbytery.-These minutes contain causes of fasting in family, church and state. Amongst the sins listed are neglect of family instruction of children, absence of mothers due to their participation in moral reforms, funeral sermons, “Sunday-schools,” and the corruption of the state. There is also an enumeration of causes of thanksgiving including: the mercies of an overruling God, the maintaining of a small visible church and the renewal of covenants several years earlier. The minutes close with a discussion of the recent secession of several prominent members, in 1885 and the troubles it entailed. These minutes are most notable for being the last occasion upon which David Steele would attend a meeting of the Presbytery.
Read More1888-Reformed Presbyterian Church General Meeting.-This meeting begins with a paper stating the reasons for refusing to join the RPCNA after the death of David Steele citing their many defections from the Covenanted Reformation until that time. Afterward, they insert a brief but moving memorial giving thanks for the life of Mr. Steele and his aid in contending for the truth. Next, they take up causes of fasting, which decry everything from hymn singing, the women’s liberation movement and birth control; followed by causes of thanksgiving, including what they perceived to be a renewed interest in Psalm singing amongst some. Finally, they correction certain printed assertions about the life and ministry of David Steele that were simply untrue.
Read More1889-Reformed Presbyterian Church General Meeting.-These minutes mainly consist of cause of fasting and thanksgiving. The former includes condemnation of the keeping holy days and the proliferation of new-fangled holy days, promiscuous dancing, drunkenness, violations of the prescribed worship of the Presbyterian Church and the introduction of deaconesses into the RPCNA. The latter includes certain improvements in public Sabbath keeping and a growing concern for Psalm singing.
Read More1890-Reformed Presbyterian Church General Meeting.-The causes of fasting include: crying down voluntary associations, criticism of the Bible, the use of grape juice in the sacrament of the Lord’s supper and the general ignorance about terms of communion. The causes of thanksgiving include: the mercies of sufficient food, interest in the Psalms for singing and more biblical notions of temperance emerging toward the end of the century.
Read More1891-Reformed Presbyterian Church General Meeting.-These minutes have causes of fasting and thanksgiving. The causes for fasting include the national disregard of Christ as Mediator, the corruption of worship, especially amongst professing Reformed Presbyterians (and the observance of holy days), attacks on Sabbath keeping, abolition of the death penalty, the rise of pornography and dangerous reading. Causes of thanksgiving include plentiful harvests and peace.
Read More1892.-Reformed Presbyterian Church General Meeting.-The Causes of Fasting include references to the growing departures from adherence to the Westminster Standards in their “traditional interpretation.,” a decrying of the corruptions in worship such as organs and observance of holydays, the growing disobedience of children to parents and the introduction of “Sunday” schools. There are also numerous points which all lovers of the Covenanted Reformation must lament, such as the gross ignorance of those who call the covenant “British Covenants” for they are without any understanding of the meaning of the Auchensaugh Renovation. The stubbornness of men, being lovers of pleasures more than God, is rebuked as well as its various consequences. There are also some Causes of Thanksgiving but they are notably shorter than many years.
Read More1893.-Reformed Presbyterian Church General Meeting.-In these minutes the G.M. witnesses against the sin of intermarrying, the dishonesty of calling oneself a “Covenanter” while disregarding the principles of the Second Reformation, the disregard and lack of order in the RPCNA (and other Presbyterian churches), the use of secular trustees and the growing ignorance concerning the doctrine of the Mediatorial reign of Christ.
Read More1894.-Reformed Presbyterian Church General Meeting.-In these minutes, the G.M. notes the ignorance of God in society generally and the peculiar lack of regard for providence, especially in matters of calamity. They discuss the Mediatorial dominion of Christ and decry the long fall from Covenanted Scotland, with its purity of religion, to the watered down, backsliding body that retained the name RPCNA. So far from bearing witness, some so-called “Covenanter” ministers, from the RPCNA, attended and participated in the Parliament of Religions (a body convened to promote “interfaith” dialogue), held in Chicago, in 1893. The lack of consistent witness in the RPCNA is noted as part of a larger trend toward irreligion throughout American society at the end of the 19th century.
Read More1895.-Reformed Presbyterian Church General Meeting.-These minutes have the G.M. adopting the Causes for Fasting from the Presbytery held in 1842, when Robert Lusk was clerk. To these, they add the increase of atheism, the increase of voluntary associations, the lack of honesty and fidelity within the churches, and increasing desecration of the Christian Sabbath. Notably, they give thanks for the continued ministry of Mr. James F. Fulton, the last minister of the Presbytery. These minutes also include obituaries for several members of the Reformed Presbytery and a scathing rebuke of the Rev. Charles Clyde for his treachery noted in the Outline.
Read More1896.-Reformed Presbyterian Church General Meeting.-The Committee on the Signs of the Times traces the apostatizing of the churches of the Protestant Reformation, noting the foretelling in prophecy. They note the selfishness and corruption together with the unpresbyterial practice of allowing ministers to resign their charges in order to move at their own pleasure. There are also condemnations of funeral sermons, voluntary associations and disobedience to parents. All of these things are attended with an ever growing love for pleasure rather than love to God. They express thanks for continued ministration of ordinances under the ministry of Pastor Fulton as well as receiving aide from Scotland. They close with a brief comment respecting the First Reformed Presbyterian International Conference, held in Lochgoin, Scotland, in 1896. It was, they note, a gathering of professed Covenanters who would not have been owned as such by the original Covenanters of the Second Scottish Reformation.
Read More1897.-Reformed Presbyterian Church General Meeting.-These minutes are relatively uneventful besides shedding some light into the persons who would usually attend these meetings. The causes of fasting and thanksgiving had not been completed at the time of this meeting due to illness of the chairman.
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Read More1863-John McAuley.-A short article by McAuley tracing the teaching of the Westminster Standards on the subject of the Mediatorial reign of Christ showing his change of mind from the Seceder position toward that of the Covenanters.
Read More1841-Archibald Johnston.-Written both as part of his exercises for ordination and for the Argumentative portion of the "American" Testimony, this production was suppressed by "New Lights" because of its careful and discriminating exegesis of the doctrine of Christ's mediatorial reign and its implications.
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