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good teaching always lay the emphasis upon the proper words.→ Some preachers emphasize grace-others, works; some lay the stress on faith; some, on repentance; some, on baptism: but the preacher skilful in the word of righteousness, lays the due emphasis upon each of these only in reference to certain points in the Christian Institution. The foolish preacher always makes the same word emphatic wherever he meets it; but the wise preacher makes the word emphatic which the connexion in which it appears requires. Whoever speaks the truth, in the manner of the truth, and with the true emphasis, cannot fail to be a polished shaft in the Lord's quiver.- -But here again I am constrained to bid you adieu for another month.

Sincerely and affectionately yours, in the hope of being present with the Lord when absent from the body.

A. CAMPBELL.

News from the Churches.

We have much, very much good news from the churches. I could wish to have laid it all before our readers in extenso, but it would fill a whole number to give all the incidents and details, with the many excellent remarks accompanying. I shall therefore extract, as nearly as possible, the meagre facts reported on the progress of the gospel:

BOON COUNTY, Mo, August 24, 1837.

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On the 2d Lord's day of this month and Saturday before, I attended once more at Fulton; and although there was a Presbytery in session not far off, yet I was met by large assemblies, and was listened to with deep interest. Nine were added to the church there -viz. one from the Baptists, one from the Methodists, and seven from the world. immersed them all straightway. This makes, I think, about fifteen that have recently been added during my visits there; and I venture the assertion, that no church of any order in the state, ever received a greater amount of moral worth, in proportion to the number, than the church of Fulton has recently done in her late additions. The church was previously large and respectable, and had been gathered and taught principally by her worthy Elders Rice and Daviess.

On Tuesday last brother Wills and I met a large congregation at Lebanon in this county. (It is near where a church of Christ has lately been planted by members from the late Baptist church at Gilead.) At the close of our address, eight respectable citizens came forward and confessed the Lord-three of whom I immersed then-the others are to obey in a few days. THOMAS M. ALLEN.

The following letter was promised in our last number as a sort of model for giving the statistics of churches. I am persuaded that such information is useful to our brethren and to the public. I am obliged to reserve the statistical view which it gives till our next number:

BOON COUNTY, September 29, 1837.

My letter of the 24th ult. made you acquainted with what I thought would interest you up to that date. The Saturday afterwards brother Wills and I held meeting in this vicinity: three confessed the Lord and were immersed. The next day brother Wills immersed one at Bear creek, and one was added to the Millersburg church, where I was with the brothers Coons. The Tuesday afterwards I was at Lebanon again with brethren Wills, Ridgeway and M'Bride. Eight owne i the Saviour of sinners and submitted to his heavenly will. The first Lord's day of this month I addressed a large congregation at The Spiers, near Boonshorough; one confessed Jesus. The Tuesday following I met a large crowd at Lebanon: two confessed the Lord, and one united from the Baptists.

The 2d Lord's day of this month brother Wills and I met several other teaching brethren in Fulton: seven submitted to the peaceful reign of Messiah; and since that brother Rice bas immersed four others in the same congregation, as I am informed.

The 3d Lord's day I was in Columbia: three were added to the church on that day. Ou last Friday, the 22d Instant, our annual meeting commenced at Bear creek in this County, and continued until the Tuesday following. The crowds and attention were very great, and much good I anticipate will result from our interview. Seven owned and obeyed the Lord during the meeting; and already have brother Wills and I been invited to immerse one of the most respectable citizens of the county, whose heart was pierced by the truth during the meeting. The utmost harmony and good feeling prevailed through out; nothing but brotherly love and Christian affection was manifested in the conduct of brethren for each other. The following teaching brethren were present, viz.-Thomas M'Bride, Joel H. Hayden, J. M'Bride, Wm. White, Joel Prewitt, James and Jacob Coons, N. Ridgeway, Wm. Reed, J. Williams, R. Roberts, M. P. Wills, and T. M. Allen There were twenty-four churches heard from, either by written or verbal communications, all of which are in the five counties of Callaway, Boon, Ioward, Randolph, and Monroe, and contain about thirteen hundred members-although all the congregations were not heard from in the counties mentioned. There are, no doubt, at least 1500 members in the different churches of Christ in the bounds above mentioned. The brethren in the above Counties, with that of Audrain county, agreed to meet in annual meeting every year hereafter; and have appointed the next meeting to be held in Paris, Monroe county, to com mence on Friday before the 4th Lord's day of September next. It was also the wish of all the brethren, that the different churches throughout the state would associate together in suitable districts, and meet annually; by which means a general acquaintance could be formed, much information obtained, and the character, situation, and wants of the churches made known.

Within the last ten or twelve months about one hundred and fifty persons have obeyed the gospel, and been added to the above churches, as far as reported, notwithstanding the information was imperfect. THOMAS M. ALLEN

LOCUST HILL, O., November 8, 1837.

I have just returned from a tour of preaching of some ten or twelve days at Antioch and Wilmington, in Clinton county, Ohio. Never did I witness a more signal triumph of the truth than at Antioch This church was planted on the Scriptures alone about 20 years ago, through the labors of my brother Samuel Rogers; and, carrying out the principles upon which he started, he was among the first to embrace and introduce at Antioch the distinguishing peculiarities of this reformation. And now, after a struggle of ten years, having passed through various fortunes, and encountered the most serious and formidable difficul ties, through the grace of God this church has triumphed gloriously!

At our recent meeting about forty-one persons were added to the congregation, a large proportion of whom were young men. At a meeting held one week before, nire were added; making in all, at the two meetings, fifty persons. At the last mentioned meeting David Hathaway and a brother Wilson attended."

My brother Samuel was with me at Antioch, and delivered several discourses and exhortations, and was very cordially received by his old acquaintances and brethren at that place. From Antioch I went to Wilmington, where I delivered eight discourses to large and unusually attentive audiences. Five persons were added to the congregation. The brethren think we never had so good a hearing at Wilmington: the sects generally attended, and professed to be pleased. Certainly the harvest is great, and the laborers comparatively few. May the Lord send laborers into his harvest!-men fearing God and hating covetousness; and may be help his people to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made them free-carrying out into practice the principles of our holy religion! is the prayer of yours as ever, JOHN ROGERS.

SUMMARY STATEMENTS. Brother Elley writes, Nov. 2d, "At two visits paid by brethren Morton and Hunter, in Louisville, Ky., seventeen persons were immersed and united with the brethren there; making in all 24 additions during October last." Brother Carman, of Baltimore, Oct. 11: “We immersed two last Lord's day, in room of those moved to the West. Seldom a Lord's day but we are visited by some brethren from a distance." B. Allen, Jefferson, Ky. writes, Oct. 11, 1837, "When brethren Morton and Hunter visited us this month, ten confessed the Lord. During a meeting at Ferin creek, three were immersed. On the Lord's day following also, a Methodist preacher and his wife were immersed into Christ. The word of the Lord has greatly prevailed at Ferin creek-a year ago, only 4 disciples-now, 60. They have finished themselves a frame meeting-house; 60 by 30. In Jefferson, by the as

sistance of brethren Morton and Carpenter, 21 persons were lately_associated into a worshipping assembly." W. M. Brown, Madison, Ia., Nov. 30, 1837, writes, "During a late visit to Port William and its vicinity I immersed thirteen, and four joined us from the Baptists.” Brother Aimes, of Jefferson county, Ia. says they "have recently received twenty to their number." J. H. Dunn, Adamsville, Ten. September 24, 1837, writes that nine persons were lately immersed in that vicinity, the fruit of his visit to a dying friend, who, on acknowledging his having lived in disobedience to the gospel, was baptized confessing his sins. He soon afterwards died; and at his funeral brother Dunn addressed the people, whereupon six confessed the Lord, and were immersed from among the Cumberland Presbyterians and Methodists. James M. Mathes, near Gosport, Ind. Nov. 15, 1837, writes— "I have had the pleasure of immersing into Christ about one hundred persons. These were a fair average of the whole community, from 80 years old, down to 12. A part of the time I had the assistance of other brethren, but especially the beloved disciple brother William Wilson of Putnam county. Brother Wilson was born so near destitute of sight, that he never saw any person to know them by their features-and of course never could read any; yet he has acquired a considerable knowledge of the Holy Scriptures: he reasons logically and forcibly, and is a powerful exhorter! I have just received a letter from brother W. Washburn of Columbus, Ia., which informs me that recently they have had a visit from brother Short, and that during his stay with them, which was about a week, eighteen were added to the congregation, twelve of them by immersion; and one more was immers ed by brother Fassett after brother Short left Columbus."

R. Foster, Lynnville, Morgan county, Ill. Nov. 17, 1837, writes"I came to this place on the 31st ult., and preached the first gospel sermon ever preached according to the apostolic order, in this village. Twenty-five persons have obeyed the gospel by immersion, and two others have made the good confession and will be immersed to-day. Among those immersed are your old friends James Gordon and wife, who moved to this place one year ago from Ohio. Old Father B. W. Stone has labored with ine here. I have been riding as an Evadgelist ever since the 10th of April last, and I have since that time immersed about one hundred and fifty persons, and the prospects every day brighten. May the truth spread till all bow to our King!"

N. Price, Sept. 6, 1836, says, "The church is still prospering in New Albany, İnd. The brethren have erected a good substantial meeting-house, brick, 60 by 40." Z. Darnel, Greensburg, Decatur county, Ind., September 28, 1837, writes of very happy seasons under his labors and those of brethren Smith, Conner, Ellis, and Garretthirty-five having confessed the Lord in a very short time. Brother A. P. Green, of Ohio, August 2d, 1834, writes that under his labors and those of brother Moody, there had recently been some thirty persons immersed; and during ten months previous in the district in which he rides about one hundred, the half of whom were immersed by his own hands. I learn from brother Gardner of Buffaloe, N. Y., that himself and his very intelligent and amiable consort, with a few others, have united to keep the ordinances of Christ in that city. His excellent letter of September shall yet, at least in part, appear on our pages. Brother Shehane, Sept. 1837, says, "Twenty-four have lately been added to the church in the vicinity of Earle's store, South Carolina." Our brother Ephraim A. Smith is now laboring in that quarter. Bro ther L. Jameson of Carthage, O., Oct. 26, writes me that two have been added to the church in Dayton since my visit to that place, and that there had been several added to the church in Carthage on his return from Dayton. B. Sanders, Bladensburg, Ohio, Nov. 2, says, "At our co-operation meeting in Wayne county, September last, seventeen were immersed. The Evangelists in that district reported one hundred and sixty-seven immersed during the last year-laborers, brethren Porter,

Vanvorhis, and Sanders. Brother B. F. Hall, I learn from "The Christian" for December, lately immersed fifteen persons at David's Fork; since which time nine more have been added there. And still more joyful, brother Johnson, who, together with brother Burnet, had lately immersed sixty-five at Nicholasville, marks on the margin of the last "Christian," one hundred and ten additions at Nicholasville within four weeks!! I learn from a letter from brother Haden, published in the "Primitive Christian," that about fifty were immersed during his late tour of seven weeks through New York. I intend to republish said letter in our next number.

On examining the letters received here during my absence in September and October, I find several worthy of publication, and several queries which I hope may yet be attended to.

For so much good news of the progress of the gospel received here within so short a period, we tender our most grateful acknowledgments to the God of all grace, praying that the Good Spirit of our God may dwell in the hearts of all these converts, and sanctify them wholly in body, soul, and spirit, and preserve them blameless till the day of the Lord Jesus! In those regions, and during the successful ministrations of the word, there were no speculations about men's brains, souls, and bodies, nor about sleeping in the grave for a thousand years; but the great practical facts-the precepts and the promises of the gospel. The valley of vision is generally the valley of dry bones! A. C.

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THE November No. of the Advocate is come to hand. As usual the Apocalypse, the organization of the brain, and the theory of Dr. Thomas' newly invented man, chiefly engross Rs 36 duodecimos. About the one-third of them are addressed to his "dear brother Campbell," whom he has now converted into a dictator, dogmatist, and persecutor. Every single point worthy of any notice, I believe, is found fully anticipated in my late Extra, which he had not then seen. I should, perhaps, except the new titles he has bestowed on me; for really I was not prepared to expect that he should convert Bethany into Rome, myself into the Pope, and my declaration to the world that I had no fellowship with his new doctrines, into a bull of excommunication. I fear nothing from this abuse. If my past and public labors do not shield me from such maliciousness, I should not expect to do it by any defence I could offer. Every instance of church discipline will afford the same scope for the same language from such men, till the Lord comes.

I am happy to learn from numerous and authentic sources, that the Doctor's partizans are indeed very, very few-only one or two here and there out of his own immediate neighborhood It is due to the brethren abroad that this should be known, because the Doctor has sought to make the impression that his new-vamped theory of human bodies and their earthly destinies is somewhat popular in Virginia. It is questionable, I learn, whether one dozen of persons in this commonwealth believe them. There may be a very few who regard them as innocent speculations; but, if I may believe a great variety of testimony, he has not made perhaps twelve converts as the fruit of his three years labor of tongue, and pen, and press. But this, with him, may be proof of their truth and excellency. The morality of some of his representations, and of extracts from letters, and colorings, is to some minds as questionable as the truth of his new doctrines. For my own part, I now have as little fellowship for the one as for the other. The inuendoes about my letter to Albert Anderson, and some other matters of the same genus, have confirmed my former doubts. My letter to brother Anderson is his property. If he agrees to its publication, I would much rather see it all published in the Advocate, than those unjustified and unjusti fable allusions to it. Other persons in Virginia, I learn, wish their whole letters to be published, rather than the extracts which have appeared: for their views are greatly misre presented by the extracts which are given to the public. All this with me is as immoral as the Advocate's speculations are schismatical.

I think the allusion to brother Shepherd, Editor of the Primitive Christian, in his last letter to me, as if brother Shepherd was a Materialist of Dr. Thomas' school, is injurious to brother Shepherd and calculated falsely to prejudice the public mind. The puff he gives brother Shepherd's writing talents for liberty to use his name in this way, will not be deemed by the Primitive Christian as a sufficient price for the use of his name on the back

side of the Apostolic Advocate. Brother Shepherd had better take an inventory of the estate before he risks any thing on the adventure. I know the Primitive Christian has cautiousness well developed.

There is a very pretty little criticism, indeed, on the Saviour's exposition of Sadduceeism, from the pen of our brother Walthal of Virginia, in a late Primitive Christian, copied into the Advocate, which I intend to present to my readers some of these days, with a full dissertation on that memorable refutation of Sadduceeism, the meaning of which 1 am fully persuaded has never yet entered into the mind of some gentlemen. Independent of the value of the argument deduced therefrom against these speculations, it deserves a full investigation for the sake of the reputation of its author and the good sense of his whole audience in admitting its irresistible conviction. For as the matter now stands in our days, I do not think one in a thousand of the readers of the New Testament understands it; and I am morally certain it is as completely hid from the eyes of all those called Materialists as were the pretensions of the Messiah, from those who crucified him. A. C

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CATHOLIC DEBATE.

EIGHT hundred and seventy dollars have already been received for the copy-right of this discussion; the one half of which is mine according to contract. The distribution which I have made of it is as follows:-Two hundred dollars have been paid over to Mr N. S. Johnson, proprietor of the "Cross and Baptist Journal," Cincinnati. for the use of the AMERICAN AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. Two hundred dollars have been forwarded to Pittsburg, to be sent on to New York, for the use of the AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. My expenses in ascending and descending the Ohio, and for stationary and other incidentals in attending the discussion, have been set down at 55 dollars, of which I now hold 35 dollars. The balance will lay over until other editions of the work are issued.

This work has not been as productive as it ought to have been. The Bishop agreed that I should contract for the right. I did so with Messrs. James & Co. at 8 cents. After the debate had been all taken down by the stenographers under this contract, not yet committed to writing, Mr. James informed me that the Bishop had agreed to sell at 6 cents, provided Messrs. James & Co. would sell the book no higher than $1,25 per copy, which surely was high enough on that arrangement. I was then constrained to acquiesce, or hazard the blame of putting up the price of the book. What effect this accommodation on the part of the Bishop had in causing me to be cheated out of ten pages which I reserved for one great summary recapitulation of the whole arguments, I pretend not to say. I will not call it a bonus or a bribe; but I think some strange things, of which I may not be able to speak fully to the revelation of secrets on the great day of discrimination, One thing is certain, that on the sales already inade, 290 dollars are given away, and Protestantism has lost ten pages-which I shall charge to the Bishop and Messrs. James and Co. till the day of final judgment. A C.

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OUR highly gifted and much esteemed brother W. Scott, of Carthage, Ohio, whose labors in the gospel and in the cause of reformation for so many years, are so well known and so highly appreciated by the disciples, contemplates resuming the publication of the Evange list. We are of opinion that those old, well tried, and faithful laborers, whose toils and efforts the Lord has greatly blessed, and who have proved themselves to be trust-worthy, capable, pious, and devoted to the work of the Lord and the eternal happiness of men, are of all men on earth the most worthy of the countenance, patronage, and support of the brethren, and of all rational and philanthropic men. And will not all who know brother Scott accord to him this character? He has given himself to the Lord and to the brethren, and they will no doubt hold up his hands and expedite his efforts in the work of illumination. I know he needs their assistance. The rich can distribute, and the poor can read; and those who are neither rich nor poor, can help themselves.

"TERMS:-The Evangelist will, as formerly, be issued monthly, on a sheet of super-royal paper: each number will contain 24 duodecimo pages; the whole making, at the expiration of the year, a volume of nearly 300 pages, with a Title, a Preface, and an Appendix. "Price, per annum-One Dollar, in advance; or one Dollar and Fifty Cents, after three months.

All letters to be post-paid, and addressed WALTER SCOTT, Carthage, Hamilton County. Ohio." Brother Scott will please send five copies to this office, and send twenty copies to those who will read but cannot pay for them, and charge them to A. C.

THE MORNING WATCH.

We have received two numbers of the "MORNING WATCH," from Evergreen, Anderson's District, S. C., noticed in our July number. The work promises to be useful The Editors seem intent on practical points, and so long as the press is employed in such mat. ters, it cannot fail to be useful and worthy of patronage. A. C.

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