Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-11-14
ALEXANDER CAMPBELL.
His Controversy with DIR. Rice and
Archbishop PureeIl-A Correction
fGr the 1T. Louis Globe.

EDITORs APPEAL-YOur valuable pa
Der Is 3 daily visitor in our midst-in
fact, the most ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
psper in this section Of North Alabams.
We gather our news and, to some ex-
tent, form our opinions from its broad,
well-flled c0lCmns, and scan closely
. your teIeglaphic sides, as well a. the
general items Of interest conveyed
Through correspondents. In your issue
Of August 18th, at the close OF an article
from the St Louis Globe, reference is
made to Rev. DR.. 81. L. Rice,
who is paraded before the public by
the writer as having " distinguished
himself by vanquishing Alexander
gampbell, the founder of CRmpbeilism,
in q lengthy debate. He also success
fully measured arms with Archbishop
Purcell of Cincinnati The writer Of
the above is evidently not the scribe Of
Matthew xii, 81, but manufactures
readily from the whole cloth with facile
Den. DR.. Rice HeUer measured arms
Ia debate with Arch bishop Purcell, Of
Cincinnati. Alexander Campbell did,
and the christian world must be the ar
bitter Of the result In regard 20 the
noted debate, at a subsequent day, with
DR.. Rice, I only ask q place for the TO
lowing striking reminiscence from the
Louisville COUrier-yOurnGl without ex-
posing myself before your readers to the
charge Of eI pdrfs criticism. Let the
writer Of the article referred to remem-
ber that, in stating facts, Z" VerbllH1 no
bile deJet esSe Stdbiten J. J. B.
,Ir. Campbell had arrived at the con-
r}Ds;on that the Greek word bdptO,
tHr1n yhout its two thousand fiexions
sgi notifications, always retains its
radical meaning Of dip, and be asserted,
in MS debate with Mr.. Rice at LeXing-
ton ia lS43, that by no author, sacred or
profane, had any word derived from this
root been used in the sense Of sprinkle or
l1O,lr, and further, that DO version Of the
scriptures, ancient or modern, had ever
rendered it by either of these words.
Mr.. Rice Immediately referred TO the
PrschIto Syrisc version, the Oldest trans
latiou Of toe New Testament, which, in
Revelations, XIX, -, translates word
derived from bdptO by ''sprinkled' -
"a vestCre sprinkled with blOod.' He
also brought Up the Nulgate trans
lated by Jerome, which renders the
same passage IN the same way. he
further alleged that 0rigen, writing in
Greek, had quoted this same passage,
using a Greek word which means
serinkie. This looked like a strong case
against Mr.. C.'s position, and would
have staggered a scholar less profoundly
versed than himself IN the science Of
language. But, confident that the laws
of language are as invari8ble as tzefe Of
nature, and that such an anOmalS Would
not exist. he did what Leverrier did
when ne discovered perturbatiOns among
the planets-he asserted that the Pes
chitO Syri8c, the Nulgate and the quota
fions of Origen we're made from text
Older than any We possessed, which
contained in this passage some intec-
ton OF rhdiHO (sprinkle) instead Of
baDtO dip. Leverrier said there must
be a star, though no eye had seen il, and
SO Mr.. CaopbelI said there must be q
certain word il a passage, though no
living man could prove it. This is the
ultimate attainment of science to say
xhat the facts must be under given cir
eunlstances. The result was the same
ia both cases. A German astronomer
directed his telescope to the heavens
znd found LeverTier's star, and q Ger
man scholar (the llustriOus Tlschen-
d0rf iOud in a convent on Mount Sinai,
in Arabia, 3 manuscript Of the Dew
testament older than any hitherto
known, which contained in Revelation,
XIX, Il. The word which Mr.. Campbell
had said must be there.
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