Box 1

Series I. Biographical File, 1912

Biographical File, 1912

Series II. Correspondence, 1897

Correspondence, 1879

Letters from C.P. Coffin, 1897

Series III. Sermons and Talks, 1898-1910, n.d.

Box 1 (cont.)

Sermons 1898-1910 [n.d.]

Sermon listing by J. W. Bradshaw, with sermons listed by number

(not necessarily chronological)

Sermons (manuscripts)

“Speaking the truth in love,” n.d. (no #)
Sermon based on Psalms (no title), n.d. (no #)
“Show us the Father,” n.d. (no #)
“The efficacy of prayer,” 2 sermons, 1898, 1905 (#341)
“Christ manifested to his disciples,” Nov. 19, 1899 (#361)
“ Abiding things” (Fatherhood of God), Feb. 26, 1900 (#362)
“Things that abide” (Saviorhood of Christ), March 11, 1900 (#363)
“Things that abide” (Friendhood of the Spirit), March 18, 1900 (#364)
“Things that abide” (Supremacy of Love), April 8, 1900 (#365)
“Things that abide” (Transforming Power), April 22, 1900 (#366)
“Victory through Fatherhood,” June 2, 1900 (#367)
“What is your life?” June 17, 1900 (#368)
“Reconciliation through Christ,” Dec. 2, 1900 (#369)
“The child the redeemer of the future,” June 10, 1900 (#370)
“The Golden Rule,” July 21, 1901 (#371)
“The doing of God’s will,” Sept. 22, 1901 (#372)
“The perpetual kingship,” March 23, 1902 (#373)
“Distinguishing things that differ,” May 3, 1902 (#374)
“Christ, revealing of man,” Nov. 10, 1901 (#375)
“What Christmas means,” Dec. 1901 (#376)
“Miriam, the prophetess,” Feb. 8, 1903 (#377)
“Rachel, the beloved,” Nov. 16, 1902 (#378)
“The beautiful Rebekah,” Nov. 2, 1902 (#379)
“The memory of the just--McKinley,” Sept. 14, 1902 (#380)
“Some ancient songs,” Oct. 26, 1902 (#381)
“The seventh commandment,” March 1, 1900 (#382)
“The Christmas song--the new song,” Dec. 1902 (#383)
“God’s use of a holy life,” Nov. 30, 1902 (#384)
“Man’s day-duty-destiny,” June 21, 1903 (#385)
“Holiness and Heaven,” Nov. 22, 1903 (#386)
“Religious training in the home,” Dec. 6, 1903 (#387)
“The grace of God,” Dec. 13, 1903 (#388)
“The divine nearness,” Sept. 17, 1903 (#389)
“The influence from divine love,” n.d. (#390)
“The more excellent way,” May 15, 1904 (#391)
“God’s measure of time,” Jan. 3, 1904 (#392)
“Earth helped the women,” Feb. 19, 1904 (#393)
“The lesson of the ant,” Nov. 13, 1921 (#394)
“The secret of content,” n.d. (#395)
“The sin of one, the suffering of many,” n.d. (#396)
“Quick return investments,” Dec. 9, 1904 (#397)
“Christianity as good news,” Dec. 25, 1904 and Jan. 15, 1905(#398)
“Christianity as a way of life,” Jan. 1 and Jan. 22, 1905 (#399)
“Christianity as a transforming power,” Jan. 29, 1905 (#400)
“The Beauty of the Lord,” April 16, 1905 (#401)
“Evolution I,” May 21, 1905 (#402)
“The ethics of business,” May 21, 1905 (#403)
“The root of all sorts of evils,” June 4, 1905 (#404)
“Evolutionary hypothesis and idea of God,” n.d. (#405)
“Weighed in the balances,” Dec. 31, 1905 (#406)
“A word for the New Year,” n.d. (#407)
“The divine limitations,” n.d. (#408)

Box 2

Sermons(cont.)

Sermons (manuscripts) (cont.)

“The imperiled home,” May 20, 1906 (#409)
“The question of divorce,” n.d. (#410)
“Lessons from a lazy man’s garden,” June 30, 1906 (#411)
“Our great possibility,” June 17, 1906 (#412)
“Universality of religion,” Sept. 30, 1906 (#413)
“Ray Palmer and his hymns,” n.d. (#414)
“Revelation,” Nov. 11, 1906 (#415)
“Seed by the wayside--the hard life,” n.d. (#416)
“Seed on rocky places--the thin life,” Dec. 1906 & July 21, 1906 (#417)
“The crowded life,” n.d. (#418)
“The affluent life,” Jan. 13, 1909 (#419)
“God’s protection, love, victory,” Feb. 2, 1907 (#420)
“Living hope by resurrection of Christ,” March 3, 1907 (#421)
“Songs of Songs,” n.d. (#422)
“The key to the supreme life,” June 16, 1907 (#423)
“The fate of the foundation of the church,” n.d. (#424)
“Foundation stone or stumbling stone,” Dec. 8, 1907 (#425)
“Trustworthy Standards,” Dec. 8, 1907 (#426)
“The fact of sin,” Feb. 16, 1908 (#427)
“The fact of Christ,” March 22, 1908 (#428)
“The fact of reconciliation,” March 29, 1908 (#429)
“Fact of transformation,” April 5, 1908 (#430)
“The divineness of the natural,” April, 1908 (#432)
“The continuous cost,” n.d. (#433)
“Godliness,” May 17, 1908 (#434)
* “Changes of 75 years in conception of religious life,”
(Oberlin’s 75th Anniversary) June 2, 1908 (#435)
“Horatio Bonar and his hymns,” n.d. (#436)
“Seek first kingdom -- ,” n.d. (#437)
“The parable of the unready,” September 27, 1908 (#438)
“The divine considerateness.” October 4, 1908 (#439)
“Pillar and ground of the truth,” October 11, 1908 (#440)
“Coming to oneself,” n.d. (#441)
“The mind of Christ” #1, November 5, 1908 (#442)
“The mind of Christ” #2, November 27, 1908 (#443)
“How the Bible grew --New Testament,” n.d. (#444)
“Ye born unto grace, the grace that gave Christmas to the world,”
December 20, 1908 (#445)
“Fear not --,” n.d. (#446)
“The welcome to the king,” January 3, 1909 (#447)
“How the Bible grew --the progressive in Scripture,” March 28, 1908 (#449)
* “Where Faith follow --75th Anniversary,” September 12, 1909 (#454)
“The goal of personality and its attainment,” October 10, 1909 (#455)
“The Ideal life audits attainment,” October 1, 1909 (#456)
“The unrecognized Song Man,” November 7, 1909 (#457)
“The warrant to great living,” November 14, 1909 (#458)
“Christmas joy,” December 26, 1909 (#459)
“The Messianic hope,” December 12, 1909 (#460)
“The Sanctions of the perfect life,” January 16, 1910 (#461)
“Mendacious Journalism,” February 2, 1910 (#462)
“Appeal of a risen life,” n.d. (#463)
“Let him that stole steal no more,” May 1, 1910 (#464)
“Paul’s philosophy of wealth,” 1910 (#465)
“The teachings of the rainbow,” June 12, 1910 (#466)
“After 10 years --,” September 4, 1910 (#467)
Samples of original folders containing sermons

Box 3

Sermons and Talks (cont...)

Talks (not sermons at church)

“Richard Watson Gilder,“ n.d. (manuscript)
“Indispensable Christ,” n.d. (manuscript)
“Effect of Church Union on Denominational Ideals and Life,” n.d. (manuscript)

Series IV. Writings, 1898, 1902, n.d.

The Higher Criticism of the Bible.” Ann Arbor Courier, n.d.
A New Problem in Christian Education.” The Congregationalist, Sept. 15, 1898.
The Drift Towards Unitarianism; Does It Exist.” Plymouth Weekly, Nov. 19, 1898
The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the First Century.” Reprints from Bibliotheca Sacra, 1902.
Reprint “Peter or Cephas in Pauline Usage,” C.P. Coffin, 1907