The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-06
RATEs OF ADVERTISING.
ALExANpER cAMPpELL.
"A Brief sketeh of His LIfe ana PubIIc
Career. istfl,r

sixteen miles from this city, OF
Sunday nightlast at fifteen minutes. t
twelve o'clock, in the seventy eight
l year of his age. i.if u.
For months past he had been in fail
ing health, but hise end was accelerated
by recent severe cold, against tht
fatal effects of which his long over
taxed energies struggled in vain. He
Ibegan to sink very noticeably more
than week ago, but up to the very last
his wonderful vitality resisted the ap.
proach of death, and in the language oi
one who watched with him, the strug,
gle was gigantic to the close. Few
men ever possessed greater strength OF
constitution. He had never known
until recently what it was to suffer
bodily ailment. For more than forty
years, ut one time in his life, he had not
been confined to his bed by illness for a
| single day. And yet no man eyer
taxed his strength more constantly or
more severely From his earliest man-
hood, and for more than sixty years OF
his life, early and late, Mr.. Campbell
was niincessant lworkeF.S His gendur-
ance was wonderful. Very little rest
suf1iced for him, so perfect and harmo-
nious was the organization of his phys
ical and mental powers. 21It aHfIN
| The results ofhis lifelong labors are
familiar to the reading religious world.
His leading works are on the shelves of
every book store, and in the library of
almost every clergyman. Those most
generally known 10 the public are his
debates, especially those with. Arch
bishop Purcell on Roman Catholicism;
with Robert Owen, the celebrated Scep-
q II Socialist. Vyith-DF-a NJ. =
Rice, a well known Presbyterian cler-
pyman, Ofhis miscellaneous works,
those most widely circulated ale the
"Christian System"-his work on Bapf
ftism, and his translation of the New
Testament. But it was not as the atl-
lticipantin any of his greatS debates,
that Mr.. Campbell was chiefly and
| most prominently known to the world.
He was the recognized head of new
religious sect, as TWAS generally es-
teeufetf. called finiiliariy ne Csimpbell-
ite baptist denomination-but called by
himself, and the membership of the
church, the Disciples. This denomipa=
ton took its origin from the teHchttfgs
of himself and his father more than
half a century ago, and now numbers,
it is said, we'll nigh hatf million OF
rous in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Ill
inois, Missouri, kentucky and Tennes-
lSee.3 Their pecnliarities as people are
that they discard all human creeds and
confessions offaith, and take the Bible
alone as perfect and all-suthclent
rule of faith and practice, esteemrl all
co commandments and traditions oflmen
as successfully fa1lible, superogatory,and
in deroEation of the all-suf1iciency as
we'll as the express dnjunetipns of the
Word of : Cod An other, pecu-
liartty is that they, .partake OF the
Sacrament of the Lords Supper every
Sunday or First Day of the Week.
They. believe also that Christian Bap-
tism can only be performed by INNER
sfon---aId that there is no warrant Ell
ther in the example of Christ himself,
or in the teachingso and praetlce OF ms
Apostles, for any other baptism. In
IfaIibs baptism they reject, because the
command is to ''repent and be bap-
tized," and baptism therefore, they
hold can,only follow repentance,
The foregoing is very brief outline
of the vieWs first taught and eSpouhd-
ed by Alexander Campbell and hisiath-
er, as religious ireformeFs, half centu-
'ry ago, and since adopted as we nave
seen; by a large mass OF people In TINS
country and in Europe. The arguments
and details OF these views are to be
found In work called the HChristian
SYstem'-the fundamenta1 work, so to
speak, of the Disciples as a denornina-
ton. Inc same -F16NSt SskJeGldily as re-
CARDS baptism, are also amplihed and
discussed in another work known. us
the HChristian Baptist, y, first hblished
in serial form, and since revised and
collated as a sort of text oolabyth de-
nomination.. n z ~ 'i1s1
Alexander Campbell was born in the
county of Antrim, ireland, in the year
1883, and dwasleducated, as was his tath-
er before him, atthe University of Gins-
cow, ScotIand-both of them as Presby-
terinn clergymen-: Thomas Camp
bell, the Poet, was relative ana class
mate of his father. Onithe one'slde ms
anHestry was of Scotch origin, and on
h ma other Hugenot French. BE imtni-
grated 70 this country IN the year ISVy,
two wears afterhis father, bringing WITH
him his mother. and younger. hr9thefs
and sisters. and settled at first tniNfash-
ington county, Pennsylva MIA, near tne
SPOT in this State to which he soon aiteT-
lived C,ontinuouslyi for more than halt
a century! That spot, now the village
of Bethany, was then wild ana ss
cluded locality amid the hills, shut OUT
almost from the world by the abrupt
cliffs that overhang 1t, ana the snaIp
windings of Buffalo creek, whlcn, ~
that day, being uDbridged were oICen
NOT fordable. 1t was in this romantic
and remote spot in the new World 70
which he had come, amid peacetul agri-
cultural pursuits, and in the prosecn-
tion of those studies BETTING his cali
ing as a minister of the Gospel, that
Alexander Campbell long and eyentInil
public career Began. without 2 snsPl
cion on his part, we may ADD, that ne
was to become one of those great Pion-
eers in the world oil reform that1haVe
appeared at rare intervals in the history
OF mankind, and have had power py
sthe sole lever OF, thought 70 9pp1save We
the weights Of Ancient tradihonst 2ng
ab6ebted fol ninias and eonseeratedt me
orfes, from the mind of society. he
began as Martin Luther and John W sssz p
ley began, not as would-b be reVolu-
ZIONIST, but as reformer OF ms own WI
immediate s'household of faith de
looked forward TO no, new denoIItna-s :
lion. but !simply Ito the eorrection OF
vital errors and Innovations that mao
been fastened upon the primitive goSP4
as preached in the pulpits of thut Day.
Martin Luther proclaimed sjustitiea-
tion by faith," and the echo and effects
of that then startling proclamation went
far beyond his own conception and cox
troll. And thus Alexander Campbell, IN
iiSemanner, startled those with whom he
vas in communion, by the declaration
that 'sCkristidR Union can result from
,lotkia0 short of The destruction Of creedS
md confessions of faith, iHdSnlueh as
I,iIaan ereeds and con- LESSONS hare de-
Sfyoued nhristi1R UItioN." Tnat .tchen-
eres tie setting aside IF eEseds 1l5d gsi con:
fe5llsfjyS SHdtE 6s attempted, G9atSttdIs
triu gre to the. srortd and to GngeGs, dHa
70 tieHlSeEreS, pE0Qf, that rthey 40 eetfeps
p This Ysls Mr. lQampbelps ffrst great
distinctive enunciatfon or dogma: 81
He held also the following to- bs SELF
| evident truths-yiz: that nothing