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CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 127 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAMPBELL, See also:ALEXANDER (1788–1866) , See also:American religious See also:leader, was See also:born near See also:Ballymena, Co. See also:Antrim, See also:Ireland, on the 12th of See also:September 1788, and was the son of See also:Thomas Campbell (1763–1854), a schoolmaster and clergyman of the Presbyterian " Seceders." Alexander in 1809, after a See also:year at See also:Glasgow University, joined his See also:father in See also:Washington, See also:Pennsylvania, where the See also:elder Campbell had just formed the See also:Christian Association of Washington, " for the See also:sole purpose of promoting See also:simple evangelical See also:Christianity." With his father's See also:desire for See also:Church unity the son agreed. He began to preach in 1810, refusing any See also:salary; in 1811 he settled in what is now See also:Bethany, See also:West See also:Virginia, and was licensed by the See also:Brush Run Church, as the Christian Association was now called. In 1812, urging See also:baptism by See also:immersion upon his followers by his own example, he took his father's See also:place as leader of the Disciples of See also:Christ (q.v., popularly called Christians, Campbellites and Reformers). He seemed momentarily to approach the doctrinal position of the See also:Baptists, but by his statement, " I will be baptized only into the See also:primitive Christian faith," by his iconoclastic See also:preaching and his editorial conduct of The Christian Baptist (1823–1830), and by the See also:tone of his able debates with Paedobaptists, he soon incurred the disfavour of the Redstone Association of Baptist churches in western Pennsylvania, and in 1823 his followers transferred their membership to the Mahoning Association of Baptist churches in eastern See also:Ohio, only to break absolutely with the Baptists in 1830. Campbell, 'who in 1829 had been elected to the Constitutional See also:Convention of Virginia by his See also:anti-See also:slavery neighbours, now established The Millennial See also:Harbinger (1830-1865), in which, on Biblical grounds, he opposed emancipation, but which he used principally to preach the imminent Second Coming, which he actually set for 1866, in which year he died, on the 4th of See also:March, at Bethany, West Virginia, having been for twenty-five years See also:president of Bethany See also:College. He travelled, lectured, and preached throughout the See also:United States and in See also:England and See also:Scotland; debated with many Presbyterian champions, with See also:Bishop See also:Purcell of See also:Cincinnati and with See also:Robert See also:Owen; and edited a revision of the New Testament. See Thomas W. See also:Grafton's Alexander Campbell, Leader of the See also:Great See also:Reformation of the Nineteenth See also:Century (St See also:Louis, 1897).

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