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Millennial Harbinger, Volume III

Alexander Campbell, editor

January 1832 to December 1832 · Bethany, Virginia

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No. 1 (January 1832) 38 articles
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  1. Introductory Remarks
  2. Reason Examined by Interrogatories -- No. II
  3. Counterfeits -- No. II
  4. Slavery in Virginia
  5. Some of the Evils of Slave Labor, and Decline of Lands in Many of the Early Settled Parts of Virginia
  6. Editorial on Slavery in Virginia
  7. To the Citizens of Virginia
  8. To the People of Virginia
  9. Prayer -- No. III. and Letter to Mr. Cohen -- No. V
  10. The Herald of Fame; or, How to Obtain Honors
  11. Editor's Note on 'The Christian Preacher' Series
  12. The Christian Preacher -- No. I
  13. Religious News -- Extracts from Letters
  14. From Washington County, Ohio
  15. From South Carolina
  16. From Georgetown, Kentucky
  17. From Tennessee
  18. Editor's Note on Letter from Tennessee
  19. From Vermont
  20. To the Baptist Church in Manchester
  21. Answer to Sister Reynolds' Letter
  22. The Harbinger Proscribed
  23. New Schisms
  24. News from Mason County
  25. Letter to Alexander Campbell (Minerva, Ky.)
  26. Richmond Herald -- New Definitions
  27. Testimony of Dr. John Owen
  28. On the 130th Psalm
  29. Campbellites Uniting with Arians
  30. Immensity of Creation
  31. 'Do Thyself No Harm'
  32. The New Year: A Word to Neutrals and Partial Reformers
  33. Personal Reformation
  34. Obituary Notice of Bishop Robert B. Semple
  35. On the Death of Robert B. Semple
  36. Rev. W. T. Brantly, D. D.
  37. Prospectus of The Evangelist
  38. Monthly Receipts for the Millennial Harbinger
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No. 2 (February 1832) 19 articles
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  1. Archippus
  2. No. V -- The Death of Christ, and the Doctrine of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
  3. Philalethes' Strictures on John
  4. Confession for Remission of Sins -- Prayer, No. IV
  5. Introductory Note to 'On the Rules of Interpretation -- No. II'
  6. On the Rules of Interpretation -- No. II
  7. Introductory Note to 'Half-way Expedients'
  8. Half-way Expedients
  9. Counterfeits -- No. III
  10. Logic and Candor of Universalism Examined -- No. I
  11. Challenge to Alexander Campbell
  12. Letter to the Editor of the Millennial Harbinger
  13. To the Editor of the Millennial Harbinger
  14. The Crisis
  15. On Slavery in Virginia
  16. Colony in Liberia
  17. Obituary Notice [Obadiah Jennings]
  18. To Correspondents
  19. Monthly Receipts for the Millennial Harbinger
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No. 3 (March 1832) 30 articles
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  1. Reason Examined by Interrogatories -- No. III
  2. Campbellism a Quarter of a Century Ago
  3. Circular Letter
  4. Essay on the Corruptions of Christianity Terminating in Popery -- No. I
  5. On the Rules of Interpretation -- No. III (Part II)
  6. Introduction to Series 'The Church'
  7. The Church -- No. I
  8. The Christian Preacher -- No. II
  9. Dialogue on Re-immersion
  10. Prayer, or Communion with God -- No. V
  11. Stephen Girard's Will
  12. Deaf and Dumb, Unable to Know God but by Teaching
  13. A Story
  14. On Intemperance
  15. Mr. Wirt's Prayer
  16. Introduction to Series 'Historic Prophecy'
  17. Historic Prophecy -- No. I
  18. Indian Spasmodic Cholera
  19. The Imputation of Unitarianism Repelled, as Offered by Bernard Whitman
  20. The Christian Messenger
  21. Miscellania and News Department
  22. On Slavery in Virginia
  23. South Carolina
  24. Pennsylvania
  25. Good Omens in Scotland
  26. Extra Defended
  27. Query
  28. A Dozen Apologies in One
  29. Friendly Admonition
  30. Monthly Receipts for the Millennial Harbinger
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No. 4 (April 1832) 37 articles · Reading edition
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  1. An Apology for Mr. Ball
  2. Admonition of A. Broaddus
  3. Extracts from Religious Herald, 3d February
  4. Keepers of the Faith
  5. Anti-Reformers Reforming; or, Andrew Broaddus against Himself
  6. Admonition for Ministers and Churches
  7. Andrew Broaddus, His Dilemmas, and His Gospel of the Spirit
  8. Extract from Religious Herald, 17th February
  9. Letter to the Editor [John du Val]
  10. Letter to the Editor [John]
  11. Facts and Documents Concerning the Obituary Notice of R. B. Semple
  12. Letter on Thomas M. Henley's Obituary Notice of Bishop Robert B. Semple
  13. Son's Response to Andrew Broaddus's Letter
  14. Letter on Interview between R. B. Semple and Thomas Campbell
  15. Letter to the Editor [Thomas M. Henley]
  16. Letter to the Editor (Richmond, Va.) [Thomas Campbell]
  17. Letter to W. J. Bootwright [Robert B. Fife]
  18. Letter to W. J. Bootwright [Abner Leitch]
  19. Remarks on 'Facts and Documents Concerning the Obituary Notice'
  20. Note on Additional Documents
  21. Letter to the Editor (Fredericksburg, Va.) [Abner Leitch]
  22. Note on Abner Leitch's Letter
  23. Letter to the Editor [Robert B. Fife]
  24. Note on Robert B. Fife's Letter
  25. Editor's Remarks on the Whole Matter
  26. Reformers and Anti-reformers, Listen to the Warning Voice
  27. Letter to the Editor [Inquirer]
  28. Letter to the Editor [W. H.]
  29. Reply to W. H.
  30. Pages 225 and 226 of the New Translation
  31. A Solution of the Difficulties Presented by Integer Vitae
  32. Query on Fasting (From Georgia)
  33. S. C. Jennings and the Christian Herald
  34. The Tendency of the Preaching of the Ancient Gospel
  35. Letter to the Editor [H. C. Coon]
  36. Note on H. C. Coon's Letter
  37. Notices
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No. 5 (May 1832) 30 articles · Reading edition
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  1. The Union
  2. Apostles
  3. Query [Matthias Winans]
  4. Answer [to Query on Apostles]
  5. Remarks on Philalethes
  6. Co-Operation of Churches -- No. V
  7. Reply to 'Co-Operation of Churches -- No. 5'
  8. Logic and Candor of Universalism -- Examined -- No. II
  9. One Argument for the Inspiration of the Apostles, Which No Sceptic Can Evade
  10. Corruptions of Christianity Terminating in Popery -- No. II
  11. Prophetic Personages -- History Prophecy, No. II
  12. Dialogue on Re-immersion
  13. Progress of Truth
  14. Letter to the Editor [Matthias Winans]
  15. Philadelphia Preachers and Churches
  16. Progress of Reform
  17. Building Houses for Christian Worship
  18. The Obituary Notice Again
  19. Letter to Thomas Campbell [J. M. Anderson]
  20. The Christian Preacher -- No. III
  21. Queries from Trumbull, Ohio
  22. Note on Jeremiah Day's The Christian Preacher's Commission
  23. A Complaint
  24. Note on 'A Complaint'
  25. A Vindication
  26. Henry Grew's A Tribute to the Memory of the Apostles
  27. The Debate in Nashville
  28. Death (Poem)
  29. 'The Athenians Know What Is Good, but the Lacedemonians Practise It'
  30. Monthly Receipts for the Millennial Harbinger
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No. 6 (June 1832) 34 articles
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  1. Logic and Candor of Universalism -- Examined, No. III
  2. Co-operation of Churches -- No. VI
  3. Queries from King William County, Virginia
  4. Three Inheritances
  5. Erratum
  6. 'The Coming of the Lord'
  7. Contents of A Connected View . . .
  8. Blurb on James A. Begg's A Connected View . . .
  9. Book Review of James A. Begg's A Connected View . . .
  10. The Literal Fulfilment of Prophecy
  11. Dialogue on Re-immersion
  12. History of the English Version of the New Testament
  13. Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the New Translation
  14. Locke's Opinion of the Form in Which the Scriptures Are Printed
  15. Introductory Note to 'Locke's Opinion'
  16. A Good Translation the Best Commentary
  17. Introductory Note to 'A Good Translation the Best Commentary'
  18. Father Simon, a Catholic Bishop and Translator, 1697
  19. Extracts from Letters
  20. Affairs at Georgetown
  21. New York
  22. Remarks on the Complaint
  23. Anecdote of Jeremiah Vardeman
  24. What Is Man?
  25. The Church -- No. II
  26. The Water and the Spirit
  27. Chronological Difficulty in Daniel
  28. Query on Dates in Daniel
  29. Answer [to Query on Daniel]
  30. Summary of the News -- May 31, 1832
  31. Congregational Reports
  32. The Cholera
  33. On Preachers in England and Ireland
  34. On Reformation and Signs of the Times
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No. 7 (July 1832) 30 articles
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  1. To the Editor of the Millennial Harbinger, Concerning the Ancient Gospel -- Letter I
  2. To Epaphras -- No. I
  3. To A. Campbell, Editor of the Millennial Harbinger -- No. I
  4. Reply to James Fishback
  5. The Christian Preacher -- No. IV
  6. Model I. Peter's Pentecostian Speech
  7. The Deist's Corner
  8. A Word from Simpson
  9. Introductory Note [to 'A Word from Simpson']
  10. The Truth and Divinity of the Bible
  11. Atheist's Corner
  12. The Verse-a-Day System the High Road to Heresy
  13. Queries, from Baltimore and Richmond, Touching Universalism
  14. Dialogue on Re-immersion (Concluded)
  15. Presbyterian Baptism Valid Because Derived from the Apostate Church
  16. Carson on Baptism
  17. Remarks [on 'Carson on Baptism']
  18. Literal Fulfillment of Prophecy
  19. Introductory Note [to 'Literal Fulfillment of Prophecy']
  20. Extract [from James A. Begg]
  21. Devotional, a Soliloquy before Prayer
  22. Address to Christian Women
  23. To the Female Members of Christian Churches in the United States of America
  24. The Force of Truth
  25. Introductory Note [to 'The Force of Truth']
  26. Extracts from Letter to the Editor [F. P. S.]
  27. Cholera in Paris
  28. Dreadful Hurricane in India
  29. Lonely Hours of a Bereaved Mother (Poem)
  30. Editor's Note
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No. 8 (August 1832) 36 articles
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  1. To Alexander Campbell, Editor of the 'Millennial Harbinger' (Continued)
  2. Reply [to James Fishback]
  3. Co-operation of Churches -- No. VII
  4. The Answer [to 'Co-operation of Churches -- No. VII']
  5. Church Discipline -- No. I
  6. Letter to the Editor [James J. Trott]
  7. Letter to Mr. McLeod [James J. Trott]
  8. Letter from Epaphras -- No. II
  9. To Epaphras
  10. Introductory Note to 'History of the Jesuits'
  11. History of the Jesuits
  12. The Christian Preacher -- No. V
  13. Model of a Discourse, No. II. Acts iii. 12-26
  14. Model III. Peter's Defence before the National Senate
  15. Model IV. (Acts 5:29-32)
  16. Dialogue on Heresy
  17. The New Name
  18. Reading the Acts of the Apostles
  19. Education -- New Series -- No. I
  20. Historical Notices of the Progress of Reform
  21. Letter to the Editor (Nicholasville, Ky.)
  22. Letter to the Editor (Georgetown, Ky.)
  23. Letter to the Editor (Maysville, Ky.)
  24. Letter to the Editor (Russellville, Ky.)
  25. Letter to the Editor (Virginia)
  26. Letter to the Editor (Hanover, Ind.)
  27. The Gleanings of Ephraim
  28. On Reformation and Reformers
  29. From Letter to William Drummond of Edinburgh
  30. Tribute to Female Excellence
  31. Testimony of the United Brethren in Favor of Immersion for the Remission of Sins
  32. On Andrew Broaddus' Extra Examined
  33. Rev. Robert Hall
  34. On the Doctorate
  35. Rules of Students
  36. Editorial Notes
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No. 9 (September 1832) 49 articles
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  1. Prophetic Iconisms -- No. I
  2. Introductory Note to 'Twelve Short and General Reasons'
  3. Twelve Short and General Reasons Why Those Passages in Scripture Which Refer to the Second Advent Should Be Interpreted Literally
  4. Church Discipline -- No. II
  5. Controversy
  6. Letters to 'A Missionary on Foreign Shores' -- Letter I
  7. Letter II
  8. 'Piety Better Than Controversy'
  9. To the Editor of the American Baptist Magazine
  10. Letter III -- Reply to the 'Sentiments' of the Missionary's Reply
  11. New Version Defended; and O. Jennings, D. D. Exposed -- No. I
  12. New Discipline in Vermont
  13. Christian Character
  14. Letter to the Editor [Thomas W. Toler]
  15. Extracts from The Importance of Small Things
  16. The Christian Preacher -- No. VI
  17. Model V. Peter's Address to the Gentiles
  18. Model VI. Paul in Antioch in Pisidia
  19. Model VII. Paul in Athens
  20. Remarks on Models V.-VII.
  21. Christian Preacher -- No. VII
  22. Progress of Reform (Brief Extracts from Correspondents)
  23. From Letter to the Editor (Nicholasville, Ky.)
  24. From Letter to the Editor (Murfreesboro, Tenn.)
  25. From Letter to the Editor (Philadelphia, Pa.)
  26. From Letter to the Editor (Ellisburg, N.Y.)
  27. From Letter to the Editor (Rock Creek, Tenn.)
  28. From Letter to the Editor (Williamson Co., Tenn.)
  29. From Letter to the Editor (Yazoo, Miss.)
  30. From Letter to the Editor (Columbia, Tenn.)
  31. From Letter to the Editor (Little Rock, Ark.)
  32. From Letter to the Editor (Wilmington, Ohio)
  33. From Letter to the Editor (Minerva, Ohio)
  34. From Letter to the Editor (Maysville, Ky.)
  35. From Letter to the Editor (Jamestown, Ohio)
  36. Letter to the Editor [Barnabas]
  37. A Hint to Barnabas
  38. Messrs. Carson and Ewing
  39. Letter to the Editor [William McClenahan]
  40. Reformers of Popery
  41. Origin of the Now Most Popular Religious Sects
  42. Ages of the Parent Sects of Protestants
  43. Introductory Note to Extracts from 'A Slap at the Church'
  44. Ecclesiastical Discipline
  45. Church of England Blessings
  46. Traffickers in Souls
  47. Remarks on 'Traffickers in Souls'
  48. Universalism. The Sentinel and Star of the West
  49. Editorial Note
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No. 10 (October 1832) 25 articles
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  1. To A. Campbell, Editor of the Mill. Harbinger -- No. II
  2. Reply [to James Fishback letter]
  3. Introductory Note to 'Enthusiasm'
  4. Enthusiasm
  5. Disciple of the Church -- No. III
  6. Prophetic Iconisms -- No. II
  7. Epaphras -- No. III
  8. To Epaphras -- No. III
  9. Letter of Recommendation
  10. New Version Defended, and O. Jennings, D. D. Exposed -- No. II
  11. Introductory Note to 'Narrative of a Few Weeks in New York'
  12. Narrative of a Few Weeks in New York (Concluded)
  13. Progress of Reform
  14. Letter to the Editor (Minerva, Ky.)
  15. Letter to the Editor (Portage County, Ohio)
  16. Testimony of a Female on the Grace of Methodism
  17. A Real and a Nominal Disciple
  18. Philalethes' Reply to an Inquirer
  19. Remarks on Rev. Dr. Cleland on Campbellism -- No. I
  20. The Church in Richmond, Virginia
  21. Letter to the Editor (Richmond, Va.)
  22. Baptism in Room of Circumcision
  23. Stillwater Association
  24. New Periodicals
  25. Camphor Treatment of Cholera
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No. 11 (November 1832) 34 articles
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  1. Epaphras -- No. 4
  2. Reply to Epaphras -- No. 4
  3. New Version Defended, and O. Jennings, D. D. Exposed -- No. III
  4. Remarks on Rev. Dr. Cleland on Campbellism -- No. 2
  5. Mr. Brantly's Gospel of Total Inability
  6. Preface to the Appendix of the Third Edition
  7. On Happiness
  8. Introductory Note to 'To Archippus'
  9. To Archippus
  10. Opinions of the Virginia Baptists in 1811 and 1832
  11. Letter to the Editor [One of Your Readers]
  12. Church Discipline -- No. IV
  13. Church Discipline -- No. V
  14. One Book, One Speech, One Mind
  15. Regeneration -- No. I
  16. Regeneration -- No. II
  17. Narrative of a Few Weeks in New York
  18. Progress of Reform
  19. Letter to the Editor (Nicholasville, Ky.)
  20. Letter to the Editor (Somerville, Tenn.)
  21. Letter to the Editor (Hines Co., Miss.)
  22. Letter to the Editor (Maysville, Ky.)
  23. Letter to the Editor (Yarmouth, Nova Scotia)
  24. Letter to the Editor (Christian Co., Ky.)
  25. Letter to the Editor (Churches in Ireland)
  26. Letter to the Editor (Springfield, Ill.)
  27. Letter to the Editor (Baltimore, Md.)
  28. Letter to the Editor (Nashville, Tenn.)
  29. The Dover Decree
  30. Luther's Catechism
  31. On Baptism
  32. Arguments for Young Disciples -- No. I
  33. Professor Stuart's New Version and Commentary on the Romans, and the Family Testament
  34. Editorial Note on Omissions
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No. 12 (December 1832) 38 articles
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  1. Address to the Virginia Baptists -- Part I
  2. A Word to the Disciples of the Ancient Gospel
  3. Letter to the Editor [Philalethes]
  4. Remarks on the Above Letter
  5. Arguments for Young Disciples -- No. II
  6. Arguments for Young Disciples -- No. III
  7. The Radical Methodists Are Becoming Anabaptists
  8. Baptist Convention of Eight Persons
  9. Co-operation
  10. Remarks on 'Co-operation'
  11. The Apostles' Creed
  12. Reply to Barnabas
  13. 'Mark Them Who Cause Divisions'
  14. Wind and Spirit
  15. Reformation the Order of the Day
  16. Prospectus for The Ohio Medical Reformer
  17. Progress of Reform
  18. Report from Murfreesboro, Tenn.
  19. Report from Tennessee
  20. Report from Christian Co., Ky.
  21. Report from Jefferson Co., Ind.
  22. Report from Shelbyville, Ky.
  23. Report from Jefferson Co., Ky.
  24. Report from Fredericksburg, Va.
  25. A Word to All the Beloved Disciples
  26. Reports from Christian Messenger, November 1832
  27. Signs of the Times -- At Rome
  28. Proclamation of the Four Legations of the Papal Kingdom
  29. Medical Notices
  30. On Treatment of Cholera
  31. Epaphras -- No. 5
  32. Reply to Epaphras -- No. 5
  33. Rational Way of Making Christians
  34. Anecdote
  35. Apology
  36. Conclusion of Volume III
  37. Index to Volume III
  38. Errata
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Extra No. 4 (August 1832) 17 articles
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  1. Two Hundred Questions and Answers
  2. Introductory Note
  3. The Bible
  4. Creeds
  5. Conversion
  6. The Christian
  7. The Church
  8. Opinions
  9. Infant Sprinkling
  10. The Addresses of the Apostles
  11. Present Division of Christendom
  12. Concluding Note
  13. On Cholera
  14. Introductory Note on Cholera Articles
  15. Extract from the Popular Instructions as to the Cholera Morbus
  16. Precautions Against Cholera
  17. Concluding Note [on Cholera]
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Extra No. 5 (August 1832) 7 articles
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  1. Character of 'The Debate on Campbellism, by Obadiah Jennings, D. D.'
  2. Introductory Note
  3. Prologue
  4. Title of the Book
  5. The Design of the Book
  6. Contents of the Book
  7. Editor's Note
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Source note: This guided reading page is built from the Volume III table of contents transcribed in the ACU/Memorial University restoration texts archive. Source page: Volume III contents.