The Christian Journal is a continuation of the earliest weekly in the Stone-Campbell Movement. Arthur Crihfield established the Christian Family Library in 1842 at Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Just prior to the Christian Family Library, Crihfield edited the Heretic Detector at Middleburg, Ohio, from January, 1837 until December, 1841.
Robert French Ferguson (1790 - 1862) is editor of Volume Two of this sixteen page weekly in all the 1843 and 1844 issues in the DCHS collection.
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Christian Journal, Volume 2, Numbers 43 - 46, January, 1844
Robert French Ferguson
Christian Journal, Volume 2, Numbers 43 - 46, January, 1844.
This is a sixteen-page weekly. The page numbers for January are 305 - 368.
Robert French Ferguson (1790 - 1862) is editor. Samuel M. Scott (1777-1852) seems to function as associate editor but is not so identified.
Notable items in the issues for this month:
- Discussion on the Campbell-Rice debate which happened in December 1843.
- Articles on Ordination by "Tau Gamma Eta," "Iota Rho," James Shannon
- Articles on Organization and Cooperation
- A proposal from D. L. T. to begin publishing a large number of Tracts
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Christian Journal, Volume 2, Numbers 25-29, September, 1843
Robert French Ferguson
Christian Journal, Volume 2, Numbers 25-29, September, 1843
This is a sixteen-page weekly. The page numbers for September are 17 - 96.
Robert French Ferguson (1790 - 1862) is editor. Samuel M. Scott (1777-1852) is publisher and functions as associate editor but is not so identified.
Notable items in the issues for this month:
- correspondence from James Fishback
- details about the upcoming debate between Alexander Campbell and Nathan Lewis Rice in Lexington, Kentucky
- George W. Elley's (1801-1884) review of Fountain Elliott Pitts' (1808-1874) Tracts on Campbellism, an attack on Alexander Campbell's views on baptism
- articles by H. T. Anderson
- Part 13 of a discussion between James Shannon and N. L. Rice on the New Birth
- a list of agents in Kentucky for the Christian Journal.
- an autobiographical sketch by Benjamin Franklin Hall (1803-1873) for the mid-1820s
- list of agents for the Christian Journal in states other than Kentucky.
- Methodism No. 2, by M. C. Tiers, runs from page 81 to the first column of page 83
- Part 14 of a discussion between James Shannon (1799-1859) and Nathan Lewis Rice (1807-1877) on the New Birth
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Christian Journal, Volume 2, Numbers 30-33, October, 1843
Robert French Ferguson
Christian Journal, Volume 2, Numbers 30-34, October, 1843.
This is a sixteen-page weekly. The page numbers for October are 97 - 160.
Robert French Ferguson (1790 - 1862) is editor. Samuel M. Scott (1777-1852), publisher, functions as editor during the absence of Ferguson
Notable items in the issues for this month:
- James Shannon's trip to Georgia
- J. B. Ferguson reports on a controversy with Stevenson, a Methodist
- Shannon's reply to N. L. Rice on the New Birth discussion
- Josiah W. Cox (1821 - ?) holds forth on the Ordination of Elders
- Financial report from Bacon College
- Correspondence regarding the upcoming Campbell-Rice debate
- Mathias Winans (1791-1849) asks H. T. Anderson questions on right of Evangelists to ordain
- William James Barbee (1816-1892) refutes reports that he is a Universalist
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Christian Journal, Volume 2, Numbers 34-37, November, 1843
Robert French Ferguson
Christian Journal, Volume 2, Numbers 34-37, November, 1843
This is a sixteen-page weekly. The page numbers for November are 161 - 224.
The DCHS copy of Issue 34 is very fragile, with missing areas.
Robert French Ferguson (1790 - 1862) is editor. Samuel M. Scott (1777-1852) seems to function as associate editor but is not so identified.
Notable items in the issues for this month:
- Proposals for publishing two new periodicals: the Christian Review at Nashville, Tennessee; the Christian Advocate & Messenger at Jonesborough, Tennessee.
- death of the "Voice of Truth" edited by "Friend Bailey"
- Henry T. Anderson responds to a Methodist, Edward Stevenson
- Anderson, in two replies, addresses J. W. Cox's views on Ordination
- Cox holds forth on "The Spirits of the Age"
- R. C. Rice reports on a debate between J. B. Lucas (Reformer) and Mr. Wilson (Methodist)
- the case of Presbyterian William R. Preston, who communed with "Reformers," fills pages 193 - 200
-T. J. Melish writes on "The Missionary Spirit"
- "Thinker" writes on Organization
- Carroll Kendrick writes on "The Duties of Bishops"
- J. W. S. Merrill reports on a trip to Alabama and Mississippi
- John M. Bramwell explains why he was concerned with W. J. Barbee's views toward Universalism