Alexander Taggart McGill (1807-1889)

Biography (Presbyterians of the Past)

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Alexander Taggart McGill is buried at Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey.

Alexander Taggart McGill is buried at Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey.

The Presence of God, a People's Prosperity: A Sermon Preached on Sunday Morning, April 11, 1841, in the Presbyterian Church, at Carlisle, Pa., Being the First Sabbath After the Decease of William Henry Harrison, Late President of the United States (1841)

An Inaugural Address, Delivered Before the Board of Directors, at Their Meeting in November, 1842 (1843)

Popery and Puseyism: Being Two Discourses Prepared Agreeable to a Resolution of the Synod of Pittsburgh of 1843; and Preached Before That Body, at Pittsburgh, September, 1844 (1844)

Popery the Punishment of Unbelief: A Sermon Before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Baltimore, May 25th, 1848 (1848)

Introduction to Mrs. N.W. Campbell, Why Am I a Presbyterian? (1852)

Prophecy (1853)

Faith and Sight Contrasted (1853, 1861)

Discourses at the Inauguration of the Rev. Alexander T. M'Gill, D.D. (1854)

Sinful But Not Forsaken: A Sermon (1861)

The Hand of God With the Black Race: A Discourse (1862)

Life By Faith: A Sermon Preached Before the Synod of New-Jersey, at the Opening of Its Sessions, at Rahway, New-Jersey, Tuesday Evening, October 21st, 1862 (1862)

Mason and Dixon’s Line (1865)

Introductory Notice to Loyal Young’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes (1865)

American Slavery, as Viewed and Acted on by the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (1865)

Address of Rev. Dr. McGill at the Semicentenary Celebration of the Presbyterian Board of Education (1869)

Tenure of the Elder’s Office (1872)

The Period From the Founding of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America to the Commencement of the War of the Revolution (1876)

Patriotism, Philanthropy, and Religion: An Address (1877)

Deaconesses (1880)

The Book of Discipline in a Revised Form, as Proposed by the Assembly’s Revision Committee (1881)

Church Government: A Treatise (1888)

Alexander Taggart McGill, D.D., LL.D. (1889)

A Short History of American Presbyterianism From Its Foundations to the Reunion of 1869 (1903)


Puseyism: Another Form of Antichrist, Sprung From Prelacy: A Sermon Before the Synod of Pittsburgh (1844) is the second of two sermons found in this volume.