Best of Alexander Campbell's Millennial Harbinger 1830-1839: Church History and Restoration Reprint Library, #1

By Katheryn Maddox Haddad

Even though Christians in the restoration movement came to America aboard the Mayflower in the early 1600s, this is an excellent primary source to understanding and tracing that portion of the restoration movement that writer Alexander Campbell, influenced.Articles appeal to the dissolving of denominations and coming together in Christian unity. Some articles quote founders of various denominations on baptism and other issues. Includes much on the world-wide cholera epidemic, especially in North America.At the end is a detailed table of contents listing all articles in each issue. Also at the end is listings of reports by various congregations around the world, but mostly in the US. Listings are by city/county and state.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Katheryn Maddox Haddad
• Release date: Feb 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781952261039

Katheryn Maddox Haddad

Katheryn Maddox Haddad spends an average of 300 hours researching before she writes a book-ancient historians such as Josephus, archaeological digs so she can know the layout of cities, their language culture and politics. She grew up in the northern United States and now lives in Arizona where she doesn't have to shovel sunshine. She basks in 100-degree weather, palm trees, cacti, and a computer with most of the letters worn off. With a bachelor's degree in English, Bible and social science from Harding University and part of a master's degree in Bible, including Greek, from the Harding Graduate School of Theology, she also has a master's degree in management and human relations from Abilene University. She is author of forty-eight books, both non-fiction and fiction. Her newspaper column appeared for several years in newspapers in Texas and North Carolina ~ Little Known Facts About the Bible ~ and she has written for numerous Christian publications. For several years, she has been sending out every morning a daily scripture and short inspirational thought to some 30,000 people around the world. She spends half her day writing, and the other half teaching English over the internet worldwide using the Bible as textbook. She has taught over 6000 Muslims through World English Institute. Students she has converted to Christianity are in hiding in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Somalia, Jordan, Pakistan, and Palestine. "They are my heroes," she declares.

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THE BEST OF

ALEXANDER CAMPBELL’S

MILLENNIAL  HARBINGER

1830 ~ 1839

Volume I

Church History and Restoration

Reprint Library

Compiled by

Katheryn Maddox Haddad

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Many of the articles about denominations are meetings regarding returning to the first-century way,

or people who came out of those denominations.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

VOLUME I, 1830

JANUARY 1830, pg. 26 BAPTISM

MARCH 1830, pg. 136-138 Campbell's conversion

MARCH 1830, pg. 140 BAPTISM

APRIL 1830, pg. 146: BAPTISTS

APRIL 1830, pg. 178-180 HOLY SPIRIT & PREDESTINATION

MAY 1830, pg. 207-208 DENOMINATIONS

MAY 1830, pg. 209 CREEDS

MAY 1830, pg. 214 BAPTIST

MAY 1830, pg. 226 BAPTISM

JUNE 1830, pg. 276 CREEDS

JUNE 1830, pg. 281 TOBACCO

JULY 1830, pg. 292-293 CREEDS & CLERGY

JULY 1830, pg. 297 THE BIBLE

JULY 1830, pg. 298 THE BIBLE

AUGUST 1830, PG. 342-343 HOLY SPIRIT

AUGUST 1830, pg. 356 REPENTENCE

AUGUST 1830, pg. 359 WORKS

AUGUST 1830, pg. 366 – 368 PRESBYTERIANS & EPISCOPALIANS

AUGUST 1830, pg. 369 HOLY SPIRIT

AUGUST 1830, pg. 377 DEAD CHURCH

SEPTEMBER 1830, pg. 391-392 WORSHIP

SEPTEMBER 1830, pg. 393-394 METHODISTS, PRESBYTERIANS

SEPTEMBER 1830, pg. 394-395 THOMAS PAINE

SEPTEMBER 1830, pg. 399 CREEDS

SEPTEMBER 1830, pg. 414 PROPHECIES

SEPTEMBER 1830, pg. 429: CREEDS

SEPTEMBER 1830, pg. 429-430: [WORSHIP]

OCTOBER 1830, pg. 439 DENOMINATIONS

OCTOBER 1830, pg. 450 DENOMINATIONS

OCTOBER 1830, pg. 454-455 HOLY SPIRIT

OCTOBER 1830,pg.469-470 BAPTISM REFORMATION QUOTES:

OCTOBER 1830, pg. 474 BAPTISM

NOVEMBER 1830, pg. 482-483 FEELINGS OF BEING SAVED

DECEMBER 1830, pg. 532 CREEDS

DECEMBER 1830, pg. 550-551 ELIAS SMITH:

DECEMBER 1830, pg. 561-567 JEWISH BAPTISM

DECEMBER 1830, pg. 568-570 FEELINGS

DECEMBER 1830, pg. 571-572 DENUNCIATION BY BAPTISTS

EXTRA  JULY 5, 1830

REMISSION OF SINS

EXTRA  DECEMBER 1830

THE BREAKING OF THE LOAF

VOLUME II, 1831

JANUARY 1831, 1, PG. 82 GOD'S TIMING

JANUARY 1831, PG. 79, 83 BAPTISTS

JANUARY 1831, pg. 5  JEWS & SHAKERS

FEBRUARY 1831 MOST OF ISSUE ON MORMONISM.

MARCH 1831, PG. 109-110 HOLY SPIRIT

MARCH 1831, PG. 114-115 ORDAINING

APRIL 1831: MUCH ON ATHEISM

APRIL 1831, PG. 165: 1730-RE. MILLENNIUM COMING 1847

APRIL 1831, PG. 168-169 .................................. FREE WILL

MAY 1831, pg. 216-219 MILLENNIUM

MAY 1831, PG. 222-223 HOLY SPIRIT

MAY 1831, PG. 239 BAPTISM

JUNE 1831, PG. 246-247 [MILLENNIUM

AUGUST 1831, PG. 357 HOLY SPIRIT

AUGUST 1831, pg. 360-363 FREE WILL

SEPTEMBER, PG. 385 BAPTISM

SEPTEMBER 1831, PG. 391 DENOMINATIONS

SEPTEMBER 1831, PG. 405 BAPTISM

SEPTEMBER 1831, PG. 408-410 DENOMINATIONS

SEPTEMBER 1831, PG. 411-417: FOOT WASHING AND HOLY KISS

SEPTEMBER 1831, PG. 42 WALES

SEPTEMBER 1831, PG. 432  7 CHURCHES OF ASIA

OCTOBER 1831, pg. 436 IMMORALITY

OCTOBER 1831, pg. 438-441 DENOMINATIONS

OCTOBER 1831, PG. 450-452 JOHN CALVIN’S WILL

OCTOBER 1831, pg. 453-457 BAPTISTS

OCTOBER 1831, PG. 459-460 ENGLAND

OCTOBER 1831, PG. 466-468 TO A JEW

OCTOBER 1831, PG. 469-474 PRAYER

OCTOBER 1831, PG. 474-476: HOLY KISS

OCTOBER 1831, PG. 477-478 FREE WILL

OCTOBER 1831, PG. 478 PRESBYTERIAN

NOVEMBER 1831, PG. 495-497 ENGLAND

NOVEMBER 1831, PG. 500-502 PRAYER [VERY FUNNY]

NOVEMBER 1831, PG. 520-522 BAPTISM

NOVEMBER 1831, PG. 523-524 MORMONISM

NOVEMBER 1831, PG. 527 IRELAND

DECEMBER 1831, PG. 534-538 BAPTISTS

DECEMBER 1831, PG. 539-542 A JEW

DECEMBER 1831, PG. 544-545 KENTUCKY

DECEMBER 1831, PG. 546 JEWS IN CHINA

DECEMBER 1831, PG. 548-552 DENOMINATIONS

DECEMBER 1831, PG. 553FF HOLY SPIRIT

DECEMBER 1831, PG. 565 MILLENNIUM

Robinson's History of BAPTISM, page 403 BAPTISM

EXTRA  OCTOBER 10, 1831

BAPTISM

VOLUME III, 1832

JANUARY 1832, PG. 1-7 RESTORATION MOVT

JANUARY 1832, PG. 11 COUNTERFEITS

JANUARY 1832, PG. 20-23 A JEW

JANUARY 1832, PG. 29 DISTORTIONS

JANUARY 1832, PG. 29 LORD’S SUPPER

JANUARY 1832, PG. 36 BAPTISM

JANUARY 1832, PG. 43 FAITH ONLY

JANUARY 1832, PG. 45 REVEREND

MARCH 1832, PG. 101-102 AGAINST CREEDS

MARCH 1832, PG. 102, 105 SAINTS, PRIESTS

MARCH 1832, PG. 126-127 EDUCATION

MARCH 1832, PG. 137-139: UNION

MARCH 1832, PG. 141-142 SCOTLAND

**APRIL 1832, PG. 289 PRESBYTERIANS

APRIL 1832, PG. 191-192 UNION

APRIL 1832, pg. 192 BAPTISTS

MAY 1832, pg. 194 KENTUCKY

MAY 1832, PG. 226-227 UNEDUCATED PREACHERS

JUNE 1832, PG. 248-249 TONGUES

JUNE 1832, PG. 277 BAPTIST TRIAL

JULY 1832, PG. 313 BIBLE

JULY 1832, PG. 333 EXPERIENCES:

EXTRA AUGUST 6, 1832

CHOLERA EPIDEMIC

AUGUST 1832, PG. 386-187 CALLED

AUGUST 1832, PG. 389-390 METHODISTS

AUGUST 1832, PG. 414-416 INDEPENDENT

SEPTEMBER 1832, PG. 471 INDEPENDENT

SEPTEMBER 1832, pg 472  TENNESSEE

SEPTEMBER 1832, PG 472 MISSISSIPPI

SEPTEMBER 1832, PG. 472 ARKANSAS

SEPTEMBER 1832, PG. 477-478 ORIGIN OF MAJOR DENOMINATIONS

OCTOBER 1832, PG. 527 BAPTISM

NOVEMBER 1832, PG. 531 DENOMINATIONS

NOVEMBER 1832, PG. 570 CANADA

NOVEMBER 1832, PG. 571 IRELAND

NOVEMBER 1832, PG. 574-57 LUTHERANS

DECEMBER 1832, PG. 577-583 BAPTISTS

DECEMBER 1832, PG. 593 METHODISTS

VOLUME IV, 1833

FEBRUARY 1833, PG. 61 WORLDLINESS

FEBRUARY 1833, PG. 89: [CHOLERA EPIDEMIC]

MARCH 1833, pg. 98 CHOLERA

MARCH 1833, PG. 138 MISSOURI

MARCH 1833, PG. 139 OHIO

MARCH 1833, PG. 140-141: KENTUCKY

APRIL 1833, PG. 147  MILLENNIUM

APRIL 1833, PG. 192 MILLENNIUM

APRIL 1833, PG. 192 CANADA

MAY 1833, PG. 205 PREDESTINATION

MAY 1833, PG. 237 NEW YORK

JUNE 1833, PG. 278-281 BAPTISM

JULY 1833, PG. 321-323 BAPTISM

JULY 1833, PG. 325 ALABAMA

JULY 1833, PG. 325 MISSOURI

JULY 1833, PG. 328 WORSHIP

JULY 1833, PG. 329 KENTUCKY

EXTRA  AUGUST 5, 1833

REGENERATION OF BAPTISM

AUGUST 1833, PG. 425-426 INFIDELS

AUGUST 1833, PG. 431 OHIO

AUGUST 1833, PG. 432 CANADA

SEPTEMBER 1833, PG. 472 CANADA

SEPTEMBER 1833, PG. 475 KENTUCKY

OCTOBER 1833, PG. 525 NEW YORK

NOVEMBER 1833, PG. 543-547 CALVINISM

NOVEMBER 1833, PG. 565 VIRGINIA

NOVEMBER 1833, PG. 570 VIRGINIA

NOVEMBER 1833, PG. 575  INDIANA

DECEMBER 1833, PG. 588-589 DENOMINATIONALISM

DECEMBER 1833, PG. 606-607 PRESBYTERIAN

VOLUME V, 1834

JANUARY 1834, PG. 12 WEEKLY COMMUNION

JANUARY 1834, PG. 13 DENOMINATIONS

JANUARY 1834, PG. 16 WORSHIP-JEWS

JANUARY 1834, PG. 34  WORSHIP

JANUARY 1834, PG. 45 TENNESSEE

JANUARY 1834, PG. 46 ILLINOIS

FEBRUARY 1834, PG. 80 VISIT WITH ATHEISTS

FEBRUARY 1834, PG. 80 NEW YORK CITY

MARCH 1834, PG. 103-104 UNITY

MARCH 1834, PG. 122-123 NEW YORK

MARCH 1834, PG. 125 PENNSYLVANIA

MARCH 1834, PG. 128-129 WASHINGTON DC

MARCH 1834, PG. 141 ABSENTEES

APRIL 1834, PG. 153 BAPTISM

APRIL 1834, PG. 165 DENOMINATIONS

APRIL 1834, PG. 171-172 HOLY SPIRIT

APRIL 1834, PG. 186 ENGLAND

APRIL 1834, PG. 186-187 EXPERIENCES

APRIL 1834, PG. 187 OHIO

MARCH 1834, PG. 187 NEW YORK

MARCH 1834, PG. 187-188 BAPTISM

MAY 1834, pg. 193 DENOMINATIONALISM

MAY 1834, pg. 199 MODERN PROPHECY

MAY 1834, PG. 217 HOLY SPIRIT

MAY 1834, PG. 227 NEW YORK CITY

JUNE 1834, PG. 256 ATHEISM

JUNE 1834, Pg. 279-280 HOLY SPIRIT

JUNE 1834, Pg. 281 PENNSYLVANIA

JUNE 1834, PG. 281 COMMUNION

JUNE 1834, pg. 285 ALABAMA

JUNE 1834, pg. 285 NEW YORK

JULY 1834, pg. 332 SNOWY BAPTISM

JULY 1834, Page 334 MARYLAND

AUGUST 1834, Page 360-364 PRESBYTERIANS

AUGUST 1834, PG. 377 NEW YORIK

AUGUST 1834, PG. 380 ARKANSAS

AUGUST 1834, PG. 381 CANADA

SEPTEMBER 1834, Page 452 LORD'S SUPPER

SEPTEMBER 1834, PAGE 452-453 METHODISTS

SEPTEMBER 1834, PG. 469 ORDER OF WORSHIP

OCTOBER 1834, PG. 494-497 [METHODISM]

OCTOBER 1834, PG. 509-511 HOLY SPIRIT

OCTOBER 1834, PG. 516-517 MONIED CHURCHES

OCTOBER 1834, PG. 527 GOSPEL ADVOCATE

NOVEMBER 1834, PG. 549 DESTRUCTIVE PROTESTANTISM

NOVEMBER 1834, PG. 572 ENGLAND & SCOTLAND

DECEMBER 1834, PG. 602 BAPTISM

DECEMBER 1834, PAGE 604 CANADA

VOLUME VI, 1835

JANUARY 1835, PG. 14-16 SINNER’S PRAYER

JANUARY 1835, PG. 37 FAITH  ONLY

JANUARY 1835, PG. 39 CANADA

FEBRUARY 1835, PG. 55-56: MILLENNIUM

MARCH 1835, PG. 110 UNSCRIPTURAL JARGON

MARCH 1835, PG. 141 CANADA

JUNE 1835, PG. 275 LORD'S SUPPER

JULY 1835, PG. 295-305 ENGLAND & SCOTLAND

JULY 1835, PG. 328-330 CALL TO MINISTRY

JULY 1835, PG. 334 TYPICAL WORSHIP MEETINGS

AUGUST 1835, PG. 350 ENGLAND

AUGUST 1835, PG. 355 SLAY IN SPIRIT

SEPTEMBER 1835, PG. 412 PRESBYTERIAN WORSHIP

OCTOBER 1835, PG. 434 REFORM THE REFORMATION

OCTOBER 1835, PG. 455-456 BAPTISM

OCTOBER 1835, pg. 457 HOLY SPIRIT

OCTOBER 1835, PG. 465-468 ORDINATION

EXTRA  OCTOBER 1835

ORDINATION

NOVEMBER 1835, pg. 535-538 LONDON

NOVEMBER 1835, PG. 558-559 SWITZERLAND

NOVEMBER 1835, P. 559-560 MARYLAND

DECEMBER 1835, PG. 597 YOUNG CAMPBEL’S SEARCH

DECEMBER 1835, PG. 604 CREEDS

DECEMBER 1835, PG. 611 INDIANA

VOLUME VII, 1836

JANUARY 1836, PG. 31 BAPTISM

JANUARY 1836, pg. 36-37 CATHOLICISM

FEBRUARY 1836, pg. 49-52 WICKLIFFE

FEBRUARY 1836, PG. 53-54 CATHOLICISM

MARCH 1836, PG. 143: PROGRESS OF THE REFORMATION:

APRIL 1836, PG. 151-152 CATHOLICISM

MAY 1836, PG. 203-204 ENGLAND

MAY 1836, PG. 237  INDIANA

MAY 1836, PG. 237 OHIO [ICY BAPTISMS

JUNE 1836, pg. 272 CATHOLICISM

**JULY 1836, PG. 302-304 WALDENSES

JULY 1836, pg. 304-305 HOLY SPIRIT

JULY 1836, PG. 308-310 ANCIENT HISTORIANS

JULY 1836, PG. 315-321 BAPTISM

JULY 1836, PG. 329-330 ENGLAND

JULY 1836, PG. 332: [DENOMINATIONS]

AUGUST 1836,M pg. 337 AC’s TRAVELING PROBLEMS

AUGUST 1836, PG. 341-343 ATHEISM

JULY 1836, PG. 381F CANADA

SEPTEMBER 1836, p. 415 OHIO & MICH.

SEPTEMBER 1836, PG. 429-430 SCOTLAND

SEPTEMBER 1836, PG. 430 IOWA

SEPTEMBER 1836, PG. 432, JOHN WESLEY

OCTOBER 1836, pg. 435 CANADA

OCTOBER 1836, pg. 475 EULEGIE FOR WIFE

DECEMBER 1836, PG. 562 WORSHIP

VOLUME VIII, 1837

JANUARY 1837, PG. 4-5  SATAN

JANUARY 1837, PG. 15-19 RESTORATION MVT 100-1300 AD

JANUARY 1837, PG. 37 THE QUEEN & THE POPE

JANUARY 1837, P. 40 DENOMINATION HISTORY

JANUARY 1837, PG. 44 CANADA

MARCH 1837, PG. 137 SOCIETY OF FRIENDS

MARCH 1837, PG. 142-143 CANADA

APRIL 1837, PG. 146-149 DENOMINATIONALISM

MAY 1837, PG. 196-199 DENOMINATIONALISM

MAY 1837, PG. 201: NOAH WEBSTER

MAY 1837, PG. 236 ENGLAND

MAY 1837, PG. 238-239 ENGLAND

JUNE 1837, PG. 243 TIMES TO WORSHIP

JUNE 1837, PG. 257-258 WOMEN’S EDUCATION

JULY 1837, pg. 290-293 HOLY SPIRIT

JULY 1837, PG. 301-305  BAPTISM

JULY 1837, PG. 312-314 CAMPBELL’S CHRISTIANITY RESTORED

JULY 1837, PG. 325 MISSOURI

JULY 1837, PG. 330 WORSHIP FORM

JULY 1837, PG. 333-335 PRESBYTERIANS

AUGUST 1837, PG. 339-342 HOLY SPIRIT

AUGUST 1837, PG. 373 CANADA

SEPTEMBER 1837, pg. 406 HOLY SPIRIT

SEPTEMBER 1837, PG. 411-414 CHRISTIANS

SEPTEMBER 1837, PG. 416 [REVELATION]

SEPTEMBER 1837, PG. 419-421 PRESBYTERIANS

SEPTEMBER 1837, PG. 423-424 CALVIN

SEPTEMBER 1837, PG. 427 OHIO

OCTOBER 1837, pg. 461-463 SUNDAY LAW

OCTOBER 1837, pg. 475 PENNSYLVANIA

OCTOBER 1837, PG. 47 KENTUCKY

NOVEMBER 1837, pg. 506-508 CHRISTIANS

NOVEMBER 1837, PG. 527 ILLINOIS

NOVEMBER 1837, pg. 527 NEW YORK

NOVEMBER 1837, PG.528 KENTUCKY

DECEMBER 1837, PG. 530-538 HOLY SPIRIT

DECEMBER 1837, PG. 561-565 CHRISTIANS

DECEMBER 1837, pg. 568 BIBLE IN SCHOOLS

DECEMBER 1837 PG. 573 ENGLAND

EXTRA DECEMBER 1836

MORMANISM

VOLUME IX, 1838

JANUARY 1838, PREFACE, PG. 3 WORDLINESS

JANUARY 1838, PG. 37-39 HOLY SPIRIT

JANUARY 1838, PG. 42-43 ENGLAND & SCOTLAND

JANUARY 1838, PG. 44-45 MISSOURI

JANUARY 1838, PG. 45 OHIO

JANUARY 1838, PG. 45 KENTUCKY

JANUARY 1838, PG. 46 TENNESSEE

JANUARY 1838, PG. 46 INDIANA

JANUARY 1838, PG. 46 ILLINOIS

JANUARY 1838, PG. 46 OHIO & NEW YORK

FEBRUARY 1838, PG. 95-96 ENGLAND

FEBRUARY 1838, PG. 96 KENTUCKY

MARCH 1838, PG. 107 HOLY SPIRIT

MARCH 1838, PG. 122 SATAN

MARCH 1838, PG. 141 WORSHIP DAYS

APRIL 1838, PG. 151 HOLY SPIRIT

APRIL 1838, PG.158-161 SATAN

APRIL 1838, PG. 191 KENTUCKY

APRIL 1838, PG. 192 SNOWY BAPTISMS

MAY 1838, PG. 198 ELDERS

MAY 1838, PG. 207-210 SATAN

MAY 1838, PG. 228-229 WORSHIP

MAY 1838, PG. 228 KENTUCKY

JUNE 1838, PG. 283 ILLINOIS

JUNE 1838, PG. 284 BAPTIST PREACHER

JUNE 1838, PG. 285 IOWA

JUNE 1838, PG. 285 KENTUCKY

JUNE 1838, PG. 287 CATHOLOCISM

JULY 1838, PG. 317 HOLY SPIRIT

JULY 1838, PG. 332 ENGLAND

JULY 1838, PG. 333 KENTUCKY

AUGUST 1838, PG. 381 VIRGINIA

AUGUST 1838, PG. 382 OHIO

AUGUST 1838, PG. 382 KENTUCKY

SEPTEMBER 1838, PG. 428 ENGLAND

OCTOBER 1838, PG. 476-477 ENGLAND

VOLUME X, 1839

JANUARY 1839, PG. 46 OHIO

MAY 1839, pg. 239 OHIO

JUNE 1839, pg. 241-261 SCIENCE & GENESIS

JUNE 1839, PG. 265-267 ORIGIN OF BOOK OF MORMAN

JULY 1839, PG. 297-298 JEWS

JULY 1839, pg. 334 CANADA

AUGUST 1839, PG. 350-351 CATHOLICISM

SEPTEMBER 1839, PG. 426 KENTUCKY

SEPTEMBER 1839, PG. 428 OHIO

SEPTEMBER 1839, PG. 428 KENTUCKY

SEPTEMBER 1939, PG. 429 ILLINOIS

SEPTEMBER 1839, PG. 430 CANADA

SEPTEMBER 1839, PG. 431 CANADA

OCTOBER 1839, PG. 468 SOUTH CAROLINA

OCTOBER 1839, PG. 469 INDIANA

OCTOBER 1839, PG. 470 KENTUCKY

OCTOBER 1839, PG. 470 ILLINOIS

OCTOBER 1839, PG. 470 MISSOURI

OCTOBER 1839, PG. 471 CHURCHES UNITED

OCTOBER 1839, PG. 472 KENTUCKY

OCTOBER 1839, PG. 473 KENTUCKY

OCTOBER 1839, PG. 474 KENTUCKY

OCTOBER 1839, PG. 477-478 INDIA

NOVEMBER 1839, PG. 536-541 ORDINATIONS

DECEMBER 1839, PG. 554-556 NAME

DECEMBER 1839, PG. 566-569 ORDINATION

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VOLUME I, 1830

JANUARY 1830, pg. 26 BAPTISM

Paidobaptist Richard Baxter said of Baptists: My sixth argument shall be against the usual manner of their baptizing, as it is by dipping over head in a river, or other cold water. That which is a plain breach of the 6th commandment, 'Thou shalt not kill,' is no ordinance of God, but a heinous sin. And, as Mr. Cradock shows in his book of 'Gospel Liberty,' the magistrate ought to restrain it to save the lives of his subjects. That this is a flat murder, and no better, being ordinarily and generally used, is undeniable to any understanding man. And I know not what trick a covetous landlord can find out to get his tenants to die apace, that he may have new fees and cheriots, likelier than to encourage such preachers, that he may get them all to turn Anabaptist....

In a word, it is good for nothing but to dispatch men out of the world, that are burdensome, and to Ranken church yards. I include, if murder be a sin, then dipping ordinarily over head in England is a sin; and if those who would make it men's religion to murder themselves, and urge it upon their consciences as a duty, are not to be suffered as a commonwealth, any more than highway murderers, then judge how these Anabaptists, that teach the necessity of such dipping, are to be suffered. (Baxter's Plain Scripture Proof, pg. 124)

JANUARY 1830, pg. 126-127 THE BIBLE

[A LETTER TO THE EDITOR for the Episcopalian Philadelphia Recorder]: "Ah! sir, I am afraid of this rising disposition to make the word of man supersede the word of God. It looks too much like an attempt to substitute the priest for the Divinity. It is too near akin to that singular delusion (an honest one I believe in my heart) which would prohibit the scriptures from going out in their mission of mercy unless a Prayer Book can go along to explain their meaning, and prevent them from leading the people into error....

"We look to ages past, and call them dark ages, when ministers of the gospel were projecting and manufacturing a hundred thousand laws and forms and ceremonies, for the promotion of christian piety among men. All the while these ministers themselves never thought of the Bible; or if they thought of it, they said it is too difficult for the common people to understand; or is not sufficient to direct and regulate the present age; or whatever they said, they must have thought that the cause of truth and piety requires some human aid and regulation not provided for in the bible; and so they went to work to supply the desideratum.

They made bad work of it undoubtedly; we all see that; and we cry, 'Why did not these ministers study the Bible themselves?' and 'Why did they not diffuse it among the people?' O! the reason is obvious; they actually thought that if the Bible were let loose in the world, it would turn the world upside down, and banish all rational piety. They have actually told us as much; and that we might more readily believe them, they have taken the trouble to have the matter decided in presbyteries, synods, and councils, in all the infallible dignity which human impotence can confer upon human folly.

After all the pious pains of the ministry to keep the Bible from doing mischief in the church of god, it at last got out into the world, and began its tremendous operations. The people were soon as wise as their priests....And, sir, the boast which some of us are so fond of flourishing in the face of our Roman Catholic opposers, that 'the Bible and Bible only, is the religion of Protestants,' will never be appropriate until all our 'human Bibles' shall be thrown into the fire, or at least dislodged from that place in our churches and our schools, which can only be safely occupied by the simple, unadulterated oracles [word] of God.

MARCH 1830, pg. 136-138 Campbell's conversion

You are pleased to commence with the good old catechism of the church of my grand father. I was taught the Westminster, 'Larger and Shorter;' but 'when I became a man, I put away childish things.'...The question is, 'At what instant of time do we enter this kingdom, or come under this reign of God, and by what means?' I say, the moment we vow allegiance to the King in the constituted way - the moment we are naturalized - the moment we are born of water and the Spirit - the moment we put on Christ - the instant we are converted, and not before....

From the age of sixteen I read devoutly, at intervals, the most 'evangelical' writers. I bought 'Baxter's Call to the Unconverted' and 'Allen's Alarm,' that I might be converted, hearing them highly commended by the pious. Boston's 'Fourfold State,' Newton's, Bunyan's, and Hallyburton's 'Memoirs,' and all the converting books were sought after and read with avidity. The accompanying influences of the Holy Spirit were prayed for most ardently on these and other works, as well as on the holy scriptures. After I had hope that I was converted, and differed much from those mere moralists of whom you speak, who you called prayer and devotion, except in a stone house denominated a church, 'fanaticism.'

After I hoped that I had passed from death to life, I began to examine this subject, and with the aid of the great and 'evangelical Dr. John Owen.'....his 'Treatise on Independent Church Government;' and, above all, his work on the Holy Spirit, in two large [volumes]....For the space of one year I read upon this subject [faith] alone. Fuller, Bellamy, Hervey, Glass, Sandeman, Cudworth, Scott, McLean, Erskine...were not only read, but studied....

Although I was considered at the age of twenty-four a much more systematic preacher and text expositor than I am now considered, and more accustomed to strew my sermons with scores of texts in proof of every point, I am conscious that I did not understand the New Testament - not a single book of it. Matthew Henry and Thomas Scott were my favorite commentators. I read the whole of Thomas Scott's commentary in family worship, section by section. I began to read the scriptures critically...the Greek article were resorted to. While these threw light on many passages, still the book as a whole, the religion of Jesus Christ as a whole, was hid from me....

But, alas! as I learned my Bible I lost my orthodoxy; and from being one of the most evangelical in the estimation of many, I became the most heretical. Experience has taught me that to get a victory over the world, over the love of fame, and to hold in perfect contempt human honor, adulation, and popularity, will do more to make the new testament intelligible, than all the commentators that ever wrote....

I differ not from you in the conclusion that the Holy Spirit begins, carries on, and consummates the salvation of men. But the question is whether independent of, accompanying, or simply BY the word of life?"

MARCH 1830, pg. 140 BAPTISM

(L etter to the Editor , signed N re. Baptism): Many a gloomy and melancholy hour did I before spend, when my feelings alone were the grounds of my hope. Often it was suggested to my mind, 'Would not the Bible believed have the same effect on an individual if all that is there revealed were a fable;' and sometimes I have been almost driven to the position I once heard a pious divine taking that, 'if false or true, it was better to be on the safe side of the question.'

APRIL 1830, pg. 146: BAPTISTS

C arey County, Ky., November, 1829, PERSECUTION BY BAPTISTS].  The Baptist church of Christ at Mount Vernon, holding the principles of the General Union, dismissed brother C. H. Trabue, not in full fellowship, for his stating in his preaching that he believes the Old Testament law is fulfilled and of no more power over the sinner, and that both saints and sinners are now under no other law but the law of Christ - and also, without the liberty of the church, hearing of experiences, and baptizing in the bounds of a church." (William Payne, Clerk)

APRIL 1830, pg. 178-180 HOLY SPIRIT & PREDESTINATION

Where is the man now living, and where is the history of the man now dead, to whom God has specially revealed anything in the Oracles but by studying them. The students of systems have become learned in systems; and the students of the Bible, and none else, have become learned in the sacred writings. How many myriads of praying non-readers have prayed for light without finding it! How long did John Bunyan, Newton, cum mulltis aliis, pray for light without finding it, before they betook themselves to the Oracles? How many now pray for the spirit to guide them into all truth? And since the apostles died, to whom has this prayer been answered?

Was Newton, Bunyan, Gill, Fuller, Wesley, Calvin, or Luther, or are the myriads of preachers now praying for the same favor, led into all truth?...The spirit, you will agree with me, teaches Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, etc., etc., alike. Why, then, do they all continue as they were?...

You say that the result of your inquiries was 'a firm belief that without the influence of God's Spirit directly on your heart, you could not be saved.'...But would not any other person, who sought with equal sincerity, have found all that you found? And if so, why do you ascribe it to a special grace in your particular case? The Lord promises the Holy spirit to every one who asks, desiring it, just as certain as natural parents give good things to their crying children....

What did you find that was not before written? Any new promise, any special promise, any new light, which was not before as distinctly and as clearly proposed as God could propose it in human language? Had you not faith before you asked, and was not this faith a persuasion that God exists, and is the rewarder of all who diligently seek him? You could not have asked for anything which you did not before believe God had promised to bestow...

This I knew, for my experience was like yours in this particular. I desired to feel a special interest, and for this I prayed....

No one in the primitive age ever made such a prayer as you and I were taught to make; no one languished then for a day or a week to be born again. All were commanded to reform [repent], and instantly all who obeyed received forgiveness of sins. Our converts are sometimes agonizing before they are born again for months - for years. This destroys the figure, and it proves that a false philosophy has perverted us from the simplicity of the gospel....

The popular doctrine of the Calvinian school...an omnipotent act is necessary to produce faith in God....When I see a grain of corn, I am willing to say it is the act of omnipotents; but if any man ask me, 'Does God put forth an act of omnipotence in producing every grain of corn?' I answer No: He gave birth to a system that creates it."

MAY 1830, pg. 207-208 DENOMINATIONS

[S ermon by Mr. Howell based on Jude 5:3 preached in the church in Cumberland Street and published in the 'Religious Herald' - DENOMINATIONS & BIBLE]  "The pride of numbers, and the arrogance of wealth and power, led them into the absurdity of setting themselves up as an authority to dictate to the world what they should and what they should not believe. Secessions from Popery have since claimed the same right; and at last, what originated in corruption and led missions into hypocrisy, has become fashionable in every denomination. Now 'Creeds and Confessions of Faith' are almost as numerous as parties themselves. In the greater part of these instruments the most opposite and contradictory opinions are fearlessly asserted and perseveringly maintained....the partisans of each one of those systems defend it with the utmost zeal and pertinacity, as being beyond doubt 'the faith which was once delivered to the saints.'...

"They are as certainly false as they are contradictory. The Bible reveals but one system of truth....The amount of falsehood and human innovation which abounds in them generally, is equal to their difference one from another, added to the difference of the whole from the word of revelation. To contend then, my brethren, for 'Creeds and Confessions' is one thing; and to 'contend for the faith' of Jesus Christ as originally delivered is another; and but too often they are antipodes of each other.

"But the question is again asked, 'What do you conceive to be the faith referred to in the text?' We reply, the Bible contains it - the Bible 'without note or comment.' Not the bible as some take upon themselves to interpret it; for there are many professing to be ministers of Christ who wrap up the word in much critical acumen; so force the meaning even of its plainest passages, and so overwhelm its simplicity with distinctions and subdistinctions, with technicalities and spiritualities, that they make it speak almost anything else than 'the faith which was once delivered to the saints.'...

Hence denomination after denomination arises, modeled to suit the depraved views of men, and the prejudices of the age, with little or no regard to the word of God....and the next thing we see are 'Creeds and Confessions of Faith.'...If an advocate for truth dare expose the absurdity or inconsistency of opinions thus originated, immediately as on another occasion, the cry resounds from every quarter, 'Great is Diana of the Ephesians!' - Yes, this modern idol the foolish and ignorant are taught to believe certainly 'fell down from Jupiter,'...But, my brethren, the secret of all this was exposed by Paul long since - 'By this craft they have their wealth.' But there is also another secret involved in the business, which we will expose in its proper place: Honor - fame - popular applause.

MAY 1830, pg. 209 CREEDS

(L etter to Editor from a REFORMING Methodist preacher against CREEDS): Some, it may be, do not tolerate reform because it comes in competition with their prepossessions. Ignorance, however, is generally the mother of Prejudice. Like priest, like people," is a very appropriate adage for these days of degeneracy.

"I do most ardently wish that you could accomplish a revolution in the creed-making world. The miserable flummery which now fills the confessions of faith, and poisons the spirits of millions in christendom, should be combated by all the weapons of truth....Whosoever walks by the New Testament standard has no need for the puny auxiliary of a human creed: whoso follows the dictates of a human creed cannot easily obey the mandates of the New Testament.

There is as much craft (call it priestcraft," or what you please) in the arrogant and unscriptural assumptions of creed-making power, as in the pretended infallibility of His Holiness in the chair of St. Peter [the Pope]. My soul loathes all such assumptions. Point christians to the New Testament, and ask for the proof from that holy book....The very circumstance that creed-mongers are always at war with each other, and that some of the most bloody civil wars have been generated by their conflicting speculations on scripture doctrines; and that they have produced as many different systems of orthodoxy as they have entertained opinions, renders their inspiration very suspicious....

Who, that has ever read a church history, will say that creeds have not done infinitely more mischief than they have counteracted or prevented?....Let men be convinced that their own works are imperfect, and they will be the more easily persuaded that the work of God is perfect, without their intermeddling to give it a finishing touch.

MAY 1830, pg. 214 BAPTIST

(F rom an article entitled Historical Sketch RE BAPTISTS): This denomination is distinguished from others by their opinions respecting the mode and subjects of baptism. They administer baptism only by immersion: and to none but adults. They claim an immediate descent from the Apostles, and assert that the constitution of their churches is derived immediately from Jesus Christ. Others affirm that they had their origin at a much later day, even as late as the 16th century. The following are the principal sects of Baptists:

(1) Particular Baptists of England and Wales; (2) General Baptists of England and Wales; (3) Mennonites of Holland and other countries; (4) Scotch or Weekly Communion Baptists; (5) Associated or Calvinistic Baptists of the U.S.; (6) Seventh Day Baptists; (7) Six Principle Baptists; (8) Mennonites of America; (9) Tunker Baptists; (10) Free Will Baptists; (11) Christian Society; (12) Emancipators; (13) Free Communion Baptists....totaling 392,427.

MAY 1830, pg. 226 BAPTISM

(F rom London Paper , December 1829 RE BAPTISM)

"An extraordinary occurrence took place in St. Martin's church on Tuesday last. A very amiable young lady named Prossor, who was brought up a Dissenter from the Church of England, having attended for a considerable time at St. Martin's Church, under the ministry of the Rev. Dr. Richards, was anxious to become a communicant with this church; but not having been christened, it was necessary she should previously undergo that ceremony.

She, however, objected to the form of christening, viz, throwing or sprinkling water on the fact, as contrary to the language of the gospel, as well as to the formula in the prayer book, the former of which says, speaking of adults who were baptized by the Apostle, And they straightway went down into the water and were baptized, etc., and the latter, speaking of infants, saying, And they shall warily dip them," etc.

"She therefore applied to Dr. Richards to be allowed at her christening that the ceremony might be performed according to what she conceived was the literal scriptural meaning of the words of the Apostle - by submersion. The Doctor, at first, said it was quite impossible, and attempted to convince the lady, by argument, that sprinkling was equally efficacious. The Doctor's argument only went to convince her that, if baptism were good for any thing at all, it was essential that the form adopted by the Saviour and the Apostles should be strictly adhered to.

In this dilemma it was suggested that, upon an application being made to the Bishop of London, he might grant a dispensation to have the ceremony performed in the manner the lady desired it - by dipping. The application was made, and it was granted. Last Tuesday was appointed for the ceremony to take place; and about mid-day a large oblong wooden tub was placed close to the baptismal font in St. Martin's Church, and the lady made her appearance, suitably attired, with woolen under clothing. It was a bitter cold day, but the lady was nothing daunted, and the Doctor warily dipped her" over head and ears, after reading the appropriate service....

The only instance of baptism by immersion having taken place in one of our churches before, occurred at Leicester, and with the consent of the Bishop of the diocese.

JUNE 1830, pg. 276 CREEDS

(L etter to Editor signed Philalethes RE CREEDS)  "Dear Sir: It is very possible that there have been in use among the people called Christians for upwards of seventeen centuries two instruments of religious instruction, very different in their origin....Of these one has been devised...and transmitted to his perishing creature man by an unerring and compassionate God...In it truth and nothing but truth, is to be found....untouched, unaltered, unmixed, uncorrupted by any debasing intermixture of human conjectures, fictions, and conceits.

The other instrument is a human contrivance...who at a very early period embraced the religion of Christ and corrupted it. It consists generally of some portion, more or less, of revealed truth, mixed up in a huge mass of human fables, conjectures, opinions, and fancies. In this horrible jumble of divine and human conceptions....commentaries, expositions, paraphrases, economies, catechisms creeds, confessions....However little impregnated with divine truth, or however much crammed with human falsehood, nonsense, and reverie....almost universally preferred to that Word and Gospel...who greedily devour the pernicious fiction, and defend it with all the fury of an excited bigot.

JUNE 1830, pg. 281 TOBACCO

(A rticle entitled Tobacco from Philadelphia May 10, 1830)  "Tobacco is, in fact,