Additional information can be found on the website of the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections.
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Collins 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 Collins' sermons. It includes the title, scripture text, date and place the sermon was preached (if known), and so on. This information is available in the master list of sermons as well.
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Pulpit—Its Nature and Offices
Charles Collins
This sermon, on Nehemiah 8:4,8, appeared in the January 1852 issue of the Southern Methodist Pulpit, a periodical based in Greensborough, North Carolina (now spelled “Greensboro”). At the time of its publication, Collins was the president of Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia.
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Sovereignty of God an Occasion of Joy
Charles Collins
This sermon, on Psalm 97:1, appeared in the 1850 issue of the Southern Methodist Pulpit, a periodical based in Richmond, Virginia. At the time of its publication, Collins was the president of Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia.
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Methodism and Calvinism Compared. A Discourse Preached at the Dedication of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Marion, Virginia. December 24, 1848
Charles Collins
Collins preached this discourse to “give an honest defence of Methodism on its controverted points” and to “expose the horrible and blasphemous character of the whole predestinarian platform.” He did it with the assurance “that the Wesleyan theology has nothing to lose, but everything to gain by discussion” (p. iv, emphasis in the original).
