The Greatest Website in the World
May 21, 2009 
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Here it is, the Dabney Archive. It was assembled with loving care by a good friend of ours, and now all the presbyterian and reformed Judeochristians out there can spend a few years agonizing over the fact that “racists” are once again introducing a lost and blind generation to one of God’s greatest gifts to the Church. Infuriating race-mixers is one of our most sublime joys in life. All that we could say in a lifetime will never begin to measure up to what you will read there.
(Hint: PDFs are searchable.)
Looks like “The greatest website in the world” still needs a bit of work. Maybe wait until there’s some sort of HTML formatting and then remind us again to check it out.
Robert Lewis Dabney is probably the most precious mortal jewel God’s Church has ever had. “He was a man. No sham – a MAN.”
I’m proud and humbled to have walked the grounds he walked, sat in classrooms wherein he taught, had dinner in the house he built, placed flowers upon his grave, and had his words occupy my mind and heart.
“Peace to the just man’s memory; let it grow
Greener with years, and blossom through the flight
Of ages; let the mimic canvas show
His calm benevolent features; let the light
Stream on his deeds of love, that shunned the sight
Of all but heaven, and in the book of fame
The glorious record of his virtues write
And hold it up to men, and bid them claim
A palm like his, and catch from him the hallowed flame.”
Wm. Cullen Bryant, “The Ages”
Hey, take that ‘defense of virginia’ treatise off!!!! WE can’t have young christians read that stuff! Or better, burn the books of Dabney and other theologians who would have something to say other than prop up today’s globalized prole-plantation.
I met a student recently who was months away from graduation at Reformed Theological Seminary. We struck up a conversation because of our mutual love for Dabney, but believe it or not, he had never heard of “A Defense of Virginia.” The churches and seminaries are deathly embarrassed of that great work of art. I can truthfully say that it is one of the two or three books that changed my life.
I bet there are a lot of things the seminaries and churches are embarrassed about, and have conveniently “lost” old manuscripts, sermons, etc.. there is a massive paper shredding of history goinng on in the archives of these institutions of “old” religion.
You make a very good point there. They know they can’t kill what is already in the public domain, but there have been many, many internal documents meant for peers rather than the public, and if these had any hint of “racism,” I’m sure they were shredded long ago. It’s hard to do this in the Internet age. Even if pastors and theologians have private email lists, there is always somebody watching. James Jordan discovered this when, on the Biblical Horizons Yahoo group, he used the word “shit” to refer to R.C. Sproul Jr.’s thought processes. And while one can hardly fault him for his discernment, he thought his comment would be private.