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GARRISON Editor Emeritus Christian-Evangelist Printed and Published by CHRISTIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION 2712 PINE STREET, - - ST. LOUIS, MO. CONTENTS Page THOMAS CAMPBELL . 11 Creative Personality of the Union Move- ment of the Nineteenth Century. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL . 2.5 Prophet and Leader of the Reformation Movement. BARTON W. STONE . 42 Prophet of Evangelism and Piety in the Reformation Movement. WALTER SCOTT . 59 Masterful Preacher and Teacher. ISAAC ERRETT . 77 Major Prophet of the Second Generation of Disciples. MOSES E. LARD . 95 Prophet of Radicalism, Literalism and Conservatism in the Second Generation of the Reformation Movement. WINTHROP H. HOPSON AND GEORGE W. LONGAN . 116 Two Representative Types of Leadership in the Middle Period of Our History. JOHN W. McGARVEY AND ALEXANDER PROCTER . 136 Two Representatives of Conservative and Progressive Leadership. THE REFORMATION MOVEMENT UP TO DATE . 159 Copyright. 19 14 CHRISTIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION St. Louis, MO. INTRODUCTION To revitalize history, by making the men who were chief actors in it to live again, is the work of a literary artist. One who does it successfully must know the history of the movement he writes about, not only in its ex- ternal phases of growth and achievement, but in the hidden forces which underlie these changes and activities. Great personalities are the dominant factors of history. As no one can know the history of the United States without knowing something of George Wash- ington, Patrick Henry, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Abra- ham Lincoln, and a host of other patriot- statesmen, so the history of the Reformation of the Nineteenth Century, as urged by the Disciples of Christ, can be understood only by those who know something of the chief per- sonalities who, at different periods of its de- velopment, have, under God, done most to shape its policy and mold its spirit. In this volume the author has called up out of the more or less misty Past some of the most forceful personalities in the history of this movement, and with a few touches of a mas- ter’s hand, has caused them to pass before us 4 INTRODUCTION again ; a nobIe company, whose memories we are to revere, whose virtues we are to emu- late, and whose mistakes, natural to their age and environment, we are to avoid, if we are able to discern them in the larger light of our day. Of the ten men whose character and work are sketched in this volume, more than half were personally known to the writer and sev- eral were his warm personal friends. The others are known by their writings. In every case the able author has shown a discriminat- ing mind in estimating the chief character- istics of the man and his contribution to OUT history. Th e readers of this small volume may well feel that they have here true por- traits, as far as they go, of the men and of their work. One of the most valuable features of this volume is the faithful portraiture of the reli- gious movement itself. Its mistakes and er- rors are not concealed, but the author sees that these are the natural, if not inevitable, results of fallible men, no matter how great and good they may be, who seek to incarnate a high ideal. He points out how these mis- takes have been, and are being, outgrown. HOW could it be otherwise if the movement be INTRODUCTION 5 of God and is indwelt by the Holy Spirit, who is to guide us into all truth? We welcome this volume and the great and good men it causes to pass before us again in review. We seem to hear their voices, soft- ened and mellowed by their celestial experi- ences, bidding us to be true to the great Leader and Captain of our salvation and to the holy cause of unity among his followers. Inspired by their heroism and their unselfish devotion to high ideals, we shall be better able to ac- complish the great unfinished tasks before us. J. H. Garrison. THOMAS CAMPBELL Creative Persondity of the Union Movement of the Nineteenth Century HEN a religion comes into the world W with vitality enough to survive in the struggle for existence, four things happen in the working out of its problems : First, a supreme creative personality ap- pears, who, passing the truth through the alymbic of his genius, molds it into a vital and consistent whole. A second personality, one or more, but little inferior to the first, comes after the founder, a man of interpretative genius, who interprets and mediates the truth in the application of its principles to life. Crea- tion and interpretation call for a third man or men in the supreme order, call for a man of constructive ability, architectonic power, a builder who organizes the religion into a sys- tem and the church into methods, forms, and an order of administration. It is in this period of organization that the ecclesiastic, the priest and creed maker get in their oars. Inspiration is succeeded by convention, tlhe spirit by the 12 MAKERS AND MOLDERS OF letter, and things drop to a lower level. The lofty ideals of the founder and his first inter- preters are blurred, confused and lost. Cor- ruption and stagnation come in like a flood. This is the reformer’s opportunity, and refor- mation, necessitated by conditions, runs along historic lines similar to those of the original faith itself. Moses was the creative personality of Ju- daism, the great pro,phets were his interpre- ters. Ezra and Nehemiah organized the law into Leviticism. During the exile and after the restoration, the Divine Legation of Moses was organized into later Judaism, an inferior product of ecclesiasticism and priestcraft. Dead consciences, lowered moral standards, corruption in faith and life, formalism, hypoc- risy and shallowness; no open vision, no in- spired prophet to correct abuses till John the Reformer appears in the wilderness, calling upon the people to hark back to the founder and his first interpreters.