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James Waddel Alexander served as pastor of the Duane Street Presbyterian Church from 1844 to 1849 and from 1851 to 1859, during which time the church relocated to its present location as the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City.

James Waddel Alexander died at Red Sweet Springs, Virginia on July 31, 1859.

James Waddel Alexander is buried at Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey (photo by R. Andrew Myers).

James Waddel Alexander is buried at Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey (photo by R. Andrew Myers).

Ode to the New Year (1824)

The Praise of God (1824)

Importance of Hebrew Literature (1827)

Plan For Collecting Historical Records (1827)

The Minister of Christ: Addressed to a Young Preacher of the Gospel (1827)

The Millennium (1827)

A Morning Hymn (1827)

Christian Old Age (1829)

A Sketch of the Life of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage (1829)

Review of the First American Edition of Pascal’s Provincial Letters (1830)

Luther’s Correspondence (1830)

Memoirs of Oberlin (1830)

A Geography of the Bible (1830)

Modern Judaism (1831)

Works of John Howe (1831)

The Annunciation of Messiah to Our First Parents (1831)

Book on the Soul (1832)

On the Use and Abuse of Systematic Theology (1832)

On Certain Errors of Pious Students in Our Colleges (1832)

Considerations on Foreign Missions: Addressed to Candidates for the Holy Ministry (1832)

The Life and Times of John Livingston (1832)

Statement of Principles Regarding The Presbyterian (1832)

Jane Scott (1832)

The Religious Condition of Holland (1833)

Review of Kirchhofer’s The Life of William Farel (1833-1834)

Parables of the New Testament (1833)

The Only Son; or, The History of Jonah Ross and His Mother (1833)

Amelia Finley; or, The Careless Reading of the Bible Reproved (1833)

The Life of Nicholas Ferrar, M.A. (1833)

Charles Clifford; or, The Children at River Bank (1834)

Hebrew Customs; or, The Missionary’s Return (1834)

Notices of the Monosyllabic Languages of South Eastern Asia (1834)

Tholuck’s Interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount (1834)

Dr. Sprague’s Hints (1834)

Brief Memoir of the Late Rezeau Brown, A.M. (1834)

Cornelius Jansenius; and the Controversies on Grace, in the Roman Catholic Church (1834)

Review of Necessity of Popular Education as a National Object by James Simpson (1835)

The Lord Jesus Christ the Example of the Minister (1835)

Review of A Treatise on the Means of Communicating the Learning and Civilization of Europe to India by C.E. Trevelyan (1835)

Natural History of the Bible (1835)

The Life of Michael Servetus (1836)

Sunday School Books (1836)

Religion and Religious Literature in Europe (1836)

Modern Miracles and Wonders (1836)

Travels About Home (1836)

Martin Luther Incognito (1836)

October 22, 1836 Letter to John Finley Crowe, John Matthews, and Mark Niles of Hanover College (1836)

The Life of Jacob, and His Son Joseph (1836)

Review of Henry’s The Life of John Calvin, the Great Reformer (1837-1839)

The Reformation in Hungary and Transylvania (1837)

The Life of Jerome Savonarola (1837)

Sprague’s Contrast Between True and False Religion (1837)

Harvest (1838)

Uncle Austin and His Nephews, or, The Scripture Guide - Being a Familiar Introduction to the Study of the Bible (1838)

Letters to a Younger Brother, on Various Subjects, Relating to the Virtues and Vices, Duties and Dangers of Youth (1838)

The American Mechanic (1838)

Remarks on the Disuse of Expository Preaching (1838)

American Embassy to Asiatic Courts (1838)

Review of Graphics; a Manual of Drawing and Writing, For the Use of Schools and Familes by Rembrandt Peale (1838)

Review of The Music of Nature by William Gardiner (1838)

The Life of William Wilberforce (1838)

Transcendentalism (1839)

Spring’s Fragments (1839)

The Origin and Variations of the English Language (1839)

The Working-Man (1839)

Review of Samuel Bayard’s Letters on the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper (1840)

French Presbyterianism (1840)

Predestinarian Controversy in the Ninth Century (1840)

Rauch’s Psychology (1840)

Macaulay’s Reviews (1840)

The Life and Times of Alexander Henderson (1840)

The Works of Doctor Chalmers (1841)

The Works of Zwingle (1841)

Review of Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)

Charge to Rev. John Hall (1841, 1860, 1870)

A Discourse in Memory of the Late Reverend John Breckinridge, D.D. (1842)

Emmons’s Works (1842)

Chalmers on Education and Ecclesiastical Economy (1842)

The Evils of an Unsanctified Literature (1843)

Board of Publication (1843)

Foreign Missions (1843)

Kant (1843)

Education For the Ministry (1843)

Letters to a Very Young Lady (1843)

Good - Better - Best; or, The Three Ways of Making a Happy World (1844)

The Life of Absalom (1844)

Introduction to Thoughts on Sacramental Occasions Extracted from the Diary of the Rev. Philip Doddridge, D.D. (1844, 1846)

Memoir of the Rev. James Waddel (1844, 1880)

Review of Hengstenberg on the Psalms (1844)

Neander’s History of the Planting of the Church (1844)

Scottish Mission to the Jews (1844)

John Foster (1844)

Baird’s Religion in America (1845)

The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold (1845)

Kidder’s Brazil (1845)

Connection Between Philosophy and Revelation (1845)

Popular Objections to Calvinism (1845)

Religious Instruction of the Negroes (1845)

Poverty and Crime in Cities (1845)

Review of Gardiner Spring, The Attraction of the Cross (1846)

Hopkins’s Evidences of Christianity (1846)

Parochial Schools (1846)

Dewey’s Controversial Discourses (1847)

Discoveries in the Region of Nineveh (1847)

March 22, 1847 Letter to Beverly Tucker Lacy (1847, 1860)

Howison’s History of Virginia (1847)

A Manual of Devotion for Soldiers and Sailors (1847)

Thoughts on Family Worship (1847)

The American Mechanic and Working Man (1847)

Frank Harper; or, The Country-Boy in Town (1847)

Love to Christ the Motive of Missions: A Discourse (1847)

History of the Presbyterian Church in Kentucky, With a Preliminary Sketch of the Churches in the Valley of Virginia (1847)

Teaching a Science: the Teacher an Artist (1848)

June 15, 1848 Letter to William B. Sprague (1848, 1858)

Turrettin’s Institutes (1848)

Life of Hegel (1848)

The History of Catechizing (1849)

Hymns for Christian Schools (1849)

Beecher and Wilson on Baptism (1849)

Review of The Life of Ashbel Green (1849)

Trees (1849)

Hymn to Christ (1849)

Education Among Merchants (1850)

The Prospects of the Mechanic (1850)

The Working Man’s Aim (1850)

Wordsworth (1850)

Le Pays Latin (1850)

Merry Men (1850)

Books and Business (1850)

Of the Term Aesthetics (1850)

The Minor Works of Doctor Johnson (1850)

Machinery and Labour (1850)

Our Visit to the Somerset Farmer (1850)

The Physiognomy of Houses (1850)

Letters on the Early Latin Writers (1850)

Roadside Architecture (1850)

Discourses at the Inauguration of the Rev. James W. Alexander, D.D., as Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Government in the Theological Seminary at Princeton (1850)

What Can We Do For Irreligious Households? (1850)

Presbyterianism in Virginia (1850)

German Church History (1850)

Sears’s Life of Luther (1850)

Close Communion (1850)

German Hymnology (1850)

The Sitting Room (1851)

Sabbath Evenings in Former Days (1851)

The Cottage Bible (1851)

Fireside Singing (1851)

Carl, the Young Emigrant: A Memoir of Schools and Schoolmasters (1851)

An Address To Christian Teachers On The Importance And Means Of An Increase In The Number Of Gospel Ministers (1851)

A Country Churchyard (1852)

Goold’s Edition of Owen (1852)

Preface to Archibald Alexander’s Outlines of Moral Science (1852)

All is Yours: Sermon (1852)

Sorrow Is Better Than Laughter (1852)

Patience (1852)

Introduction to George Orme, Roger Miller; or, Heroism in Humble Life: A Narrative (1852)

Consolation (1852, 1853)

The Young Men in Our Literary Institutions (1853)

The Character of Jesus Christ, an Argument for the Divine Origin of Christianity (1853)

Distrust of the Word (1853, 1861)

Curiosities of University Life (1854)

Sketches of the Pulpit, in Ancient and in Modern Times (1854)

The Life of Archibald Alexander, D.D. (1854)

The Life of Archibald Alexander, D.D. (1854, 1856)

Plain Words to a Young Communicant (1854)

Remarks on the Studies and Discipline of the Preacher (1855)

Mrs. Sherwood and Henry Martyn (1855)

Preface to Maria Cheeseman; or, The Candy-Girl (1855)

Quesnel and the Jansenists (1856)

Foote’s Sketches of Virginia (1856)

Memoirs of John M. Mason, D.D. (1856)

Waldegrave on Millennarianism (1856)

Baird’s Religion in America (1856)

The Merchant’s Clerk Cheered and Counselled (1856)

The American Sunday-School and Its Adjuncts (1856)

Some Account of the Writings of the Reverend Philip Doddridge, D.D. (1857)

A Thanksgiving Sermon on the English Language (1857)

Some Account of an Old English Manuscript in the Nisbet Library (1858)

Show Me Thy Glory (1858)

Review of William B. Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit, Vols. III and IV (1858)

The Holy Flock (1858)

Discourses on Common Topics of Christian Faith and Practice (1858)

Children’s Praise For the Gospel (1858)

The Doctrine of Perception, as Held by Doctor Arnauld, Doctor Reid, and Sir William Hamilton (1859)

Anglo-Latin Hymns (1859)

Divine Providence in Particulars (1859)

The Revival and Its Lessons (1859)

Bring Me Up Samuel (1859)

Introductory Notice to J.L. Cabell’s The Testimony of Modern Science to the Unity of Mankind (1859)

The Omnipresence of God (1860)

Sacramental Discourses (1860)

Forty Years’ Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D., Vol. 1 (1860)

Forty Years’ Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D., Vol. 2 (1860)

Forty Years' Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D. (1860, 1870)

The Breaking Crucible; and Other Translations of German Hymns (1861)

Thoughts on Preaching (1861)

Faith: Treated in a Series of Discourses (1863)

God, My Exceeding Joy (1864)

Truth In the Heart and Other Stories (1866)

The Hope and Power of the Church: Selections From the Writings of Rev. Dr. James W. Alexander (1868)

James Waddel Alexander (1871)

The Alexander Memorial (1879)

School-Boy Heroes: The Story of Maurice Gray and Carl Adler (1872)

The Sunday-School Anniversary (n.d.)

The Little Story Book (n.d.)


Published under the nom de plume “Cyprian" (see Henry C. Alexander, The Life of Joseph Addison Alexander, Vol. 1 (1870), pp. 55-56.

Published under the nom de plume “Cyprian" (see Henry C. Alexander, The Life of Joseph Addison Alexander, Vol. 1 (1870), p. 55.

This article is signed “Atlanticus” and James. W. Alexander acknowledges this to be his pen name in John Hall, ed., Forty Years’ Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D. (1860), p. 106.

This article is signed “Quis” and James W. Alexander acknowledges this to be his pen name in John Hall, ed., Forty Years’ Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D. (1860), p. 106.

Though published anonymously, James W. Alexander claims authorship in John Hall, ed., Forty Years’ Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D. (1860), p. 106.

This poem is signed “M. R--n” and James W. Alexander acknowledges this to be his pen name in John Hall, ed., Forty Years’ Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D. (1860), p. 106.

This poem is signed “M. R--n” and James W. Alexander acknowledges this to be his pen name in John Hall, ed., Forty Years’ Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D. (1860), p. 106.

Although this article is signed by “S.L.R.,” its authorship is ascribed to James W. Alexander in John Hall, ed., Forty Years’ Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D. (1860), p. 115.

Although this article is signed by “S.L.R.,” its authorship is ascribed to James W. Alexander in John Hall, ed., Forty Years’ Familiar Letters of James W. Alexander, D.D. (1860), p. 115.

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This 2-part article appeared in the April 1833 and April 1834 issues of The Biblical Repertory.

Included in this article are brief letters by Samuel Miller, Archibald Alexander and Isaac Van Arsdale Brown.

Included in this article are brief letters by Samuel Miller, Archibald Alexander and Isaac Van Arsdale Brown.

In this letter, James W. Alexander declines an offer to serve as President of Hanover College (Indiana).

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This 2-part article appeared in the January 1837 and July 1839 issues of The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review.

Thanks to Gary Steward of Colorado Christian University for the PDF copy of this book.

This committee report appears in an article about the 1846 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America by Charles Hodge.

Letter concerning John Holt Rice.

This set of poems appeared in the March, April, June and October 1849 issues of The Presbyterian Treasury.

This set of poems appeared in the March, April, June and October 1849 issues of The Presbyterian Treasury.

Authorship ascribed to Archibald Alexander and/or James Waddel Alexander.

Authorship ascribed to Archibald Alexander and/or James Waddel Alexander.

“Preaching and Preachers.”

“Preaching and Preachers.”

The chapter on “The Matter of Preaching” (beginning at p. 217) is actually by Lyman H. Atwater, but was mistakenly included by the editor (S.D. Alexander).