Call number
Publication
Columbia, SC: SCMAR, 1993.
Physical description
209 p.; 24 cm
Notes
From the Preface:
The Associate Reformed Presbyterians of the South sponsored two periodicals before the Civil War. Although endorsed by the Associate Reformed Synod of the South, both were published by individual ministers without any financial support from the Synod. The earliest of these was The Christian Magazine of the South, a monthly founded and edited by the Rev. James Boyce in 1843. It was issued from his home in Winnsboro, S.C. until December, 1851.
The second publication, a weekly which enjoyed the blessing of the Synod of the South, was founded in Due West in 1851 by the Rev. J .I . Bonner and his brother-in-law, the Rev. J.O. Lindsay. It was first titled The Erskine Miscellany, but within a year the Rev. Lindsay withdrew from the venture, and the title was changed to The Due West Telescope.
These publications regularly carried death and marriage notices until the Telescope was suspended due to the pressures of the war in 1863. The style of the death notices was influenced by the Associate Reformed Synod's views on burial services. Its Book of Worship warned that the services were to be carried out "without unnecessary ceremony" and were to be "free from injudicious eulogies, and confined mainly to the improvement of the occasion and the providence of God to the living" (found in the Minutes of Synod, 1899, p. 393)
Sometimes there was unusual detail, and I have included some stories which have special human interest and others which were clearly intended as warning of how sudden and uncertain death may be. For example, see page 81.
The file of The Christian Magazine of the South is complete; unfortunately, that of The Erskine Miscellany/The Due West Telescope is very incomplete. These files are located at Bowie Divinity Hall, Erskine Theological Seminary and McCain Library, Erskine College.
The Associate Reformed Presbyterians of the South sponsored two periodicals before the Civil War. Although endorsed by the Associate Reformed Synod of the South, both were published by individual ministers without any financial support from the Synod. The earliest of these was The Christian Magazine of the South, a monthly founded and edited by the Rev. James Boyce in 1843. It was issued from his home in Winnsboro, S.C. until December, 1851.
The second publication, a weekly which enjoyed the blessing of the Synod of the South, was founded in Due West in 1851 by the Rev. J .I . Bonner and his brother-in-law, the Rev. J.O. Lindsay. It was first titled The Erskine Miscellany, but within a year the Rev. Lindsay withdrew from the venture, and the title was changed to The Due West Telescope.
These publications regularly carried death and marriage notices until the Telescope was suspended due to the pressures of the war in 1863. The style of the death notices was influenced by the Associate Reformed Synod's views on burial services. Its Book of Worship warned that the services were to be carried out "without unnecessary ceremony" and were to be "free from injudicious eulogies, and confined mainly to the improvement of the occasion and the providence of God to the living" (found in the Minutes of Synod, 1899, p. 393)
Sometimes there was unusual detail, and I have included some stories which have special human interest and others which were clearly intended as warning of how sudden and uncertain death may be. For example, see page 81.
The file of The Christian Magazine of the South is complete; unfortunately, that of The Erskine Miscellany/The Due West Telescope is very incomplete. These files are located at Bowie Divinity Hall, Erskine Theological Seminary and McCain Library, Erskine College.