The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-02-19
posed in tho Memoirs, 1t is somewhat dill.

individuals to-7developc an application
Of the principle Of the steam en-
ginr, Several experimentcrs had the
principle in their minds without any inter
coursewith. oralnowledge o. each other,
but It Tqm4lned lfor I&1Esi MATT, more
than any other man, 10 reduce tho princi,
pie to availability, and hence in so doing,
he connected his name forever with the
wonderful history Of steam. And SO 1t
was, in a manner, with Mr. CAMPBELL
and several Others in his religious Feforna-
ton. as early as The forepart Of the seven
teenth century The celebrated English
divine, Ohllllngwortl, had suggested that
tho Bible alone was the only creed upon
which the Christian world could become
united. a And in this country, cOtempo-
raneous with Mr.. CAMPBELL's first utter
ances and movements, there were steps in
q similar direction. Between what lie
thought out for himselfand gathered from
others In Scotland, and what his fhther,
who had preceded him to this country,
had initiated, he obtained his start as to
the ideas afterwards more fully developed
in regard to purely scriptural bases Of
faith and church organization. Whatever
others nlay have done at the outset, he II
was who took tho field most actively and
effectively, in advocacy Of tho new views,
and in short time give them that general
currency in the West and South which
they have maintained cvcEsince. ~
The reputation of Mr.. CAsrBELL was
moi by any means wholly due TO his sim
plc connection with this new religious
movement We suppose it likely enough
that d Ilan Of lis commanding talents
would have became distinguished even
had he remained in the filth wherein he
WINS horn and educated. Indeed, It is Casy
enough to perceive that nature had high
" qualified him to take decided views Of
things and boldly maintain them. He
had unmistakable special talents as con-
trovesialist. This was evident from an
early day in his cvent(ul career, and hence
1t was not at all strange that he became
in time a champion debatcr, rs il were,
and was so Oflcn seen on many hard
fought fields battling on the great religious
issues Of the day. On two occasions he
drew to himself unusual attention rs q
theological disputant, and to those occa-
sions owes no little Of his general reputa-
ton before the religious world. We refer
TO his debates with RoBERT OWEN, the
Infdel and Socialist, IN 1920, and with
Bishop PURCELL, Of Cincinnati, in 1886,
These arc considered his two leading de-
bates, anil moro than any Others, perhaps,
exhibit his capacity and resources in that
particular sphere Of his labOrS. Ie had.
appetizer quite noted debate at n subsc-
uucnt day with Rev. DR.. N. L. RICE, and
we find in IN article in the Louisville
Journal the following somewhat striking
"Reminiscences given in regard to it We
quote whit Is said as follows: W
Mr.. Campbell had arrived at the con-
clusion TINT the Greek word Bdpto
throughout its two thousand ilexions and
notifications always retains It's radical
meaning OF dip, and he asserted in his de-
batc with Mr.. Rice at Lexington in 1913,
that by no author, sacred or prOianc, had
any Word derived from this root been used
In the sense Of sprinkle or pour and, fur
thcr, that no version Of the Scriptures, an.
cient or modern, Ind ever rendered y by
either Of these words MIRO Rice il1mc-
tliately referred to the Pcschito Syriac
version, tic oldest translation Of the New
Testament, which, in Rev. 1918, trans:
iatcs a word derived from Bdpto by "sprin.
klcd"-''a vesturc sprinkle1 with blood."
lie also brought up the Vulgate trans
lated by jerome, which renders the same
passage In tho sano way. He further al
legged TINT 0rigen, writing In Greek, had
quoted this same passage, using q Greek
word which means sprinkle This look
cd like strong case against Mr.. C.'s
position, md woald have staggered
scholar less profoundly vcrsed than
himself In the science Of language. But,
confident that the laws Of Language arc rs
inyariablC rs those Of nature, and that
such IN anomaly could not exist, he did
what Leverricr did when he discovered
pcrturbatIons among the planets She u.s.
serted that the Peschito Syriac, the Vul-
gatc and tho quotations Of 0ngcn were
made from text older than any VIC pos
sesscd, which contained In this passage
some infection Of rhdino (sprtnklc) instead
of baptO dip. Lcvcrricr said there must
be star, though no eye had seen It, and
so Mr.. Campbell said there must bC acer-
tain word in u passage, though no living
man could prove II. This Is tho ultimate
attainment Of science to say what the
iIlctg must he under given circumstance.
Tho result was the same In both cases. A
German astronomer directed his telescope
10 the heavens and found LeverricPs star;
md a German scholar (thelillustriOus
TischundOrf1 found in q convent on Mount
Sinai, IN Arabia, a manuscript Of tho New
Testament older than any hitherto known.
which contained IN 1tOv. xix, IS, the word
which Mr.. Campbell Ind said must be
there. 't,h .ysE'-4h @aI
AS We said at the outset, there Is much
in these Memoirs thatwe might quote and