Additional information can be found on Bruce’s Wikipedia page.
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Bruce User Guide
Robert H. Ellison
The User Guide for the Library of Appalachian Preaching is a Google Sheet that can be searched, sorted, and downloaded for offline use.
This part of the Guide provides information about Bruce’s sermons and other discourses. It includes the title, scripture text, date and place the address was delivered (if known), and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well.
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Introductory Lecture Delivered before the Institute of Arts and Sciences, Pittsburgh, on the 20th December, 1836
Robert Bruce
Bruce delivered secular speeches as well as sermons. Like his Address Delivered before the Pittsburgh Philosophical Society, this lecture is included in the Library to help illustrate the full range of his oratory.
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Discourses on Various Points of Christian Doctrine and Practice
Robert Bruce
According to the introduction, some of these sermons were composed early in Bruce’s career, either while he was still “a student in divinity” or “shortly after he entered on the ministry” (p. iv). His goal in publishing them was “to present, under as condensed a form as possible, several articles of divine truth, and the principal arguments by which they are supported” (p. iii).
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Address Delivered before the Pittsburgh Philosophical Society
Robert Bruce
In addition to his duties as pastor and principal of a university, Bruce was the first president of the Pittsburgh Philosophical and Philological Society. This address he gave before the Society is not a sermon; like his Introductory Lecture Delivered before the Institute of Arts and Sciences, it is included in the Library to help illustrate the full range of his oratory.
