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Session 4 Video

In session 4 we look at Alexander Campbell, arguably the most prolific advocate for the Restoration Movement.

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  - **Sept. 12, 1788** – Born in Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland.

    - Educated by his father.

    - Assisted his father as a tutor at his academy

   - **1808** – Departed for America, but was shipwrecked off the coast of Scotland.

     - When his ship wrecked, he promised to become a minister if the Lord would save him and his family.

     - **1808-1809** – Studied at the University of Glasgow in
Scotland

   - **1809** – Arrived in America and read his father’s *Declaration and Address* – Agreed to live by the principles of this document.

   - **1810** – Preached his first sermon – Great success!

   - **1811** – Married Margaret Brown (died 1827).

   - **1811** – He and his father formed of the Brush Run Church in Western Pennsylvania.

     - Thomas served as elder, Alexander served as preacher.

     - From its beginning, this church offered the Lord’s Supper on a weekly basis.

     
   - **1812** – Accepted immersion as the New Testament form of baptism and was baptized.

   - **1813** – Alexander’s father-in-law, John Brown, gave him a farm to keep the family from moving out of the area.

   - **1816** – Preached his most famous sermon, “The Sermon on the Law”.

   - **1818** – Opened the Buffalo Seminary in his home – Closed the seminary in 1822.

   - Prominent debater – Successfully discussed numerous religious topics with numerous opponents:

     - **1820** – Debated Presbyterian John Walker.

     - **1823** – Debated Presbyterian W. L. McCalla

     - **1829** – Debated Skeptic Robert Owen

     - **1827** – Debated Roman Catholic Bishop John B. Purcell

     - **1843** – Debated Presbyterian Nathan L. Rice

   - Became a prolific publisher and writer:

     - **1823-1830** – Monthly Periodical: *Christian Baptist*

     - **1830-1866** – Monthly Periodical: *Millennial Harbinger*

     - **1826** – First modern translation of the New Testament in the U.S.: *Living Oracles*

     - **1831** – “Delusions,” the first scholarly review of the newly published Book of *Mormon*

   - **1828** – Married Selina Bakewell after the death of his first wife, Margaret Brown.

   - **1829** – Served in the Virginia Constitutional Convention.

   - **1841** – Opened Bethany College and served as President.

   - **1847** – Toured Great Britain with massive crowds – Briefly imprisoned in Scotland.

   - **1849** – American Christian Missionary Society formed with Alexander Campbell as president.

   - **1857** – Preaching to Washington, D.C., crowd that included President Buchanan, then had a private diner with the President.

   - **March 4, 1866** – Died at his home in Bethany, West Virginia.

- Additional Resources:

  - Campbell, Selina Huntington – *Home Life and Reminiscences of Alexander Campbell*

  - Cherok, Richard J. – *Debating for God: Alexander Campbell’s Challenge to Skepticism in Antebellum America*

  - Cochran, Louis – *The Fool of God: A Novel Based Upon the Life of Alexander
Campbell*

  - Grafton, Thomas W. – *Alexander Campbell: Leader of the Great Reformation of the Nineteenth Century*

  - Richardson, Robert – *Memoirs of Alexander Campbell*

  - Wrather, Eva Jean – *Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in Freedom* (3 Vols.)

  - Websites:

    - Historic Bethany - [https://www.bethanywv.edu/about-bethany/historic-bethany/](https://www.bethanywv.edu/about-bethany/historic-bethany/)

    - Outrageous Campbellite - [http://www.outrageouscampbellite.com/](http://www.outrageouscampbellite.com/)


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