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The Growth Of "Southern" Presbyterianism In West Virginia : 1830 To 1880, Charles W. Mcnutt

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An essay on the growth of "Southern" Presbyterianism in West Virginia.

The Messenger, Vol. 67, No. 2

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The Messenger, Vol. 67, No. 1

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The Messenger, Vol. 66, No. 5

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John Letcher, J. Monroe Wells Jr.

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This monograph will present to its reader a biographical study of a man who is little known--John Letcher, Civil War Governor of Virginia. The Civil War is, to date, the most important episode in the history of these United States. From tis internal upheaval evolved a great and compact nation. From the opening volley at Sumter to the surrender at Appomattox, Virginia was in a position of importance. It was the main objective of the Federal Government, since the Capitol of the Confederacy was at Richmond. Throughout this turmoil there was a leader and a statesman in the governor's chair. …

Commonwealth And Protectorate In Virginia, 1649-1660, Charlotte Anne Beale

Master's Theses

It is the purpose of this thesis to show the vory close nnd contintled relationship between the govern­ ment or England and the colony ot Virginia in the Commonwealth period and the greater independence of Virginia undor the Protectorate.Many debatable questions arose during the Commonwealth period and were treated in accordance with the local situation.The general relationship of this first period is that of close and friendly interest, but, at the same time, the authority of the Commonwealth was maintained.In the Protectorate period there were tower questions, since the Lord Protector was occupied with heavier and more pressing problems …

Tarleton Perry Crawford, Garland D. Haddock

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This paper is an original one on the missionary life of Dr. Tarleton Perry Crawford, missionary of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Dr. Crawford was in China from 1852 to 1885 and stationed at the Shanghai and Tung Chow missions.

The source of material for this paper comes from the correspondence of Crawford with the Foreign Mission Board. These papers are found in the Depository of the Virginia Baptist Association, S.B.C. All facts in this paper were derived from these letters and reports. Any material gathered from other sources has been acknowledged by footnotes.

The Messenger, Vol. 66, No. 4

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The Messenger, Vol. 66, No. 3

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Slave Life In Virginia Between 1736-1776 As Shown In The Advertisements Of The Virginia Gazettes, Florence Lafoon

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Newspapers are an invaluable index to a period and the personalized Virginia Gazettes are particularly revealing of the attitudes of the Colonial period. Although the advertisements for runaway slaves give more of the master's feeling for the slave than the life of the slave himself, it is hoped that the writer has sufficiently drawn forth the inferences toward this latter point to make all that is available clear. There are no copies of the Virginia Gazette between the years 1739/40 - 1744/45, and 1746 - 1766. This would make a great difference to a chronology of any kind, but the …

The Development Of The Peanut Industry In Nansemond County, Parker E. Brown

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Contrary to popular belief only a smell percentage of the world supply of peanuts is raised in the United States. The greater portion of them are produced in opain and China and shipped to this country to be used in manufacturing.

Public Life Of Peyton Randolph, Sidney Barney

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Randolph was a man well read in law, and a person whose opinions were often asked and highly esteemed. He was a very large and inert man and this fact caused him to get less business than he could have ordinarily obtained. Randolph was well read and up to date on all political affairs. While in office, he endeavored to carry out the duties to the best of his abilities, and his work was rarely criticized. A good example of his work and philosophy can be found in the Fredericksburg Resolutions of 1775, in which he laid down the principles …

A History Of The First Kent Baptist Church, Kent Cliffs, New York, 1810-1910, Gordon M. Christensen

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On a rural hillside overlooking the Boyds Corners Reservoir stands The First Kent Baptist Church. Kent Cliffs, the hamlet which it serves, is located in the western end of the town of Kent, in the approximate center of the county of Putnam, New York.

Here in the foothills of the Berkshires and fifty-two miles north of Columbus Circle in the heart of New York City, this rural church serves a community of approximately one hundred families. However, due to the influx of summer residents escaping the heat of the city, the population of Kent Cliffs more than doubles from June …

The Public Life Of Edmund Randolph, H. J. Gordon Jr.

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In this paper I shall make no attempt to treat any portion of the private life of Mr. Randolph. His family and domestic affairs will be ignored completely. Only those portions of his life spent in the service of the Commonwealth of Virginia, or the Federal Union shall enter into the reader's ken. And that story alone is long enough and distinguished enough.

We first encounter Edmund Randolph in this paper when he enters the Continental Army as Aide-de-Camp to General Washington, and part from his as he sadly pens his resignation from the office of Secretary of State. I …

Fitzhugh Lee, Hunter W. Martin

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It might well note that Fitzhugh seems to be the last of his clan to demonstrate those qualities of leadership, which raise one above the common herd, for in a changing and growing America the family has today become obscure and from it has arisen no recent leader.

The Messenger, Vol. 66, No. 2

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Balthasar Hubmaier, James Hardwood Barnett Iii

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Balthasar Hubmaier stands as one of the great unknowns of the Reformation. Only in the Baptist annals is he treated to any extent. Perhaps the reason lies in the fact that the Anabaptists were very much in the minority throughout the Reformation. They never had even a city which might be called Baptist, much less a nation. To be sure a great number of them lived at Waldshut for a while and then at Nikolsburg under the protection of some Moravian lords. But this happy state did not last long. Perchance, it is because of this that C.J.H. Hayes in …

The Messenger, Vol. 66, No. 1

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The Problem Of Evil, Clyde T. Francisco

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The problem presented in this paper is one that was first brought emphatically to my mind on a Wednesday night, four years ago. The pastor of a Baptist Church was discoursing upon the foreknowledge of God. "God knows everything we are going to do", he said, "but does not in any way interfere with our actions." It started me upon a long train of thought as to the relation between God and the free will and hence, between God and evil. The discussion that follows is the outcome of my research.

The Messenger, Vol. 65, No. 5

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De Quincey And The Lake Poets, Samuel Abraham Cohen

Master's Theses

I feel that an investigation into the friend­ ships between each of the Lake Poets and DeQuincey is worthwhile. The intercourse of these great personalities and the effects they produced on one another are sources of valuable information . It will be the object of this study to present the personal and social lives of the Lake Poets and their devotee, with a view of finding contributions and detractions made to each other by this association.

Ambrose Bierce, Walter Richardson Hudgins

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While Bierce is not a great writer, when compared with the really great, he has a peculiar fascination for a select group of readers. And his fame will live more by change than by any general public acclaim. Like many others, I first became acquainted with him purely by accident. Since then I have come to know him better through desire.

Of the scores of people I have asked to give their reaction to Bierce, scacely more than a half dozen professed any knowledge that such a person ever existed. This much I noticed: All of the people who knew …

The Messenger, Vol. 65, No. 4

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Crossed Signals Off The Chesapeake, Roy M. Newton

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It was in the fall of 1781, over four years after the Declaration of Independence, that General Cornwallis surrendered his force at Yorktown, and American independence was realized. Yorktown is generally supposed to have been the decisive battle of the American Revolution, but it was the naval engagement off the Virginia Capes six weeks earlier, when the British fleet through a confusion over tactical signals, was driven away from the Chesapeake Bay, that actually decided the fate of the British forces in America. Had Adin.iral Graves taken advantage of his superior position when he encountered the Comte de Grasse, who …

The Messenger, Vol. 65, No. 3

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The Political Career Of Sir John Harvey : Governor Of Virginia From 1629 To 1639, Merrill R. Stewart

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Sir John Harvey first became connected with the colony of Virginia in 1623, when he was appointed to a commission to investigate the administration of the colony. James I, having had numerous disagreements with the London Company, owing to the subscription to a different political philosophy by its leaders, had determined to have the colony of Virginia for the crown. He used the fiction of colonial expansion to gain popular approval and bad administration on the part of those in control for his reason. The purpose of this board was to gain sane sort of evidence to give justification for …

The Relation Of Eternity And Time To Reality, Thomas English Hill

Master's Theses

In the following pages we shall undertake, first, to trace the history of our problem, sketching in order the presentation of each of the above theories and, second, to summarize what seem to be the major contributions and defects of each.

Lewis Addison Armistead, Flavius Burfoot Walker Jr.

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Lewis Addison Armistead is today chiefly remembered for one thing--the heroic charge of he and his brigade at Gettysburg. Where Armistead fell beyond the stone wall, also fell the hope, and yea even perhaps the independence of, the South

William Evelyn Cameron : A Biography, Robert E. Leitch

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William Evelyn Cameron was born in Petersburg, Virginia, November 29th. His father, Walker Anderson Cameron, was a cotton broker, descended from Sir Ewan Lochiei, the celebrated chief of Clan Cameron in Scotland.

Among Cameron's distinguished progenitors were Benjamin Harrison, who settled in Virginia in 1630, and was Secretary to the Colony; Sir Dudley Diggs, Master of the Rolla to King Charles l; Colonel William Byrd of Westover; and Edmund Jenings, deputy-governor of the colony from 1706 to 1710.

The Messenger, Vol. 65, No. 2

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