Additional information can be found on Macartney’s Wikipedia page and in The Making of a Minister: The Autobiography of Clarence E. Macartney (Great Neck, NY: Channel Press, 1961).
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Macartney 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 Macartney's sermons. It includes the title, sermon 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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Bible Epitaphs
Clarence Edward Macartney
In the Foreword, Macartney writes that “Bible biography…affords an impressive, and somewhat unique, mode of preaching. I have taken up just a few of the striking epitaphs of the Bible. The door is wide open for other preachers who care to enter this chamber of instruction and inspiration” (p. 5).
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Chariots of Fire: And Other Sermons on Bible Characters
Clarence Edward Macartney
In the Foreword, Macartney writes, “It has been my experience that…many of the lesser-known personalities of the Bible draw the preacher’s bow for him with greater power and more striking illustration than the more familiar and more celebrated personalities.” The 18 sermons in this collection thus focus on Hagar, Herod Antipas, Elisha’s servant, and other “men and women who, while not the pre-eminent characters of the Bible…are full of interest” (p. 7).
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Great Women of the Bible
Clarence Edward Macartney
This book is a kind of sequel to Sermons on Old Testament Heroes (1935) and The Greatest Men of the Bible (1941). In the Foreword, Macartney notes that he asked his congregation to vote on the women who should be included. “Ruth stood first in the list, and Eve last”; he also “added several women who did not receive a place in the first ten” (p. 5).
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Sermons on Old Testament Heroes
Clarence Edward Macartney
In the Foreword, Macartney writes that sermons in this collection “were preached at morning and evening services in the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, and are recorded here in the general form in which they were preached” (p. 6). Not all of his subjects, he writes, “are heroes, in the popular sense of the word; but all are conspicuous personalities, and all proclaim and illustrate timeless lessons of morality and life” (p. 5).
