The Christian Standard, edited by Isaac Errett, in 1866 entered the field of Stone-Campbell periodicals as a corrective to the highly conservative American Christian Review, edited by Benjamin Franklin.
Adding PDFs of the microfilms of the Christian Standard to the DCHS Digital Commons is a collaborative effort between DCHS and Christian Theological Seminary. In 1968, as part of the Christian Standard Indexing and Microfilming Project sponsored by the Phillips Family of Western Pennsylvania, Christian Theological Seminary provided the negatives of the microfilm.
The PDFs of the microfilm do not have the crispness of PDFs made with today's high resolution scanners. DCHS intends to purchase high resolution, large format scanning equipment. When the equipment is on hand, we plan to replace the lower quality PDFs with higher quality PDFs.
OCR on these PDFs is sketchy because the images were made from microfilm, not the original volumes. Feel free to use the Christian Standard Index to look up topics, places, and people and let us know if you want PDFs for items of interest to your research.
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The Way of Victory on the French Field. Christian Standard 1937 Pages 973, 974
Mrs. Eugene Arthur Lower
The Way of Victory on the French Field. Christian Standard 1937 Pages 973, 974
Featured in the article on evangelism in Louisiana among the French Acadians are Evariste Hebert, Hollins Duhon and Bernard Fontenot.
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Negro Education and Evangelization. Supplement to the Christian Standard, December 31, 1892
Isaac Errett
Negro Education and Evangelization. Supplement to the Christian Standard, December 31, 1892.
Featured African American evangelists (including portraits or group pictures) are James Singleton, Asbery Calvert, Thomas Frost, Willis A. Scott, Howard Singleton, Robert D. Brooks, James G. Keys, Walter S. Miller and King Brown.
Includes information on Southern Christian Institute, Edwards, Mississippi.
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Christian Standard, Volume 6, Numbers 1 - 13 (January 7 - April 1, 1871)
Isaac Errett and James Sanford Lamar
Christian Standard, Volume 6, Numbers 1 - 13 (January 7 - April 1, 1871) Pages 1 - 104.
Isaac Errett of Cincinnati, Ohio, and James Sanford Lamar of Augusta, Georgia, are editors.
OCR on these PDFs is sketchy because the images were made from microfilm, not the original volumes. Our goal is to scan the originals once we have a large format scanner.
Be sure to use the Christian Standard Index to look up topics, places, and people.
A written discussion between J. S. Lamar (Christian) and M. A. Goodrich (Universalist) appears in these numbers.
George Washington Linton (? - 1885), as a solution for teaching congregants to sing better, proposes his training for young men to learn music fundamentals well enough to teach their congregants to sing better. (A New Proposition, page 26.)
Pardee Butler holds forth on "The Peril of this Reformation" in several parts. (See page 41)
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Christian Standard, Volume 6, Numbers 14 - 26 (April 8 -July 1, 1871) Pages 105 – 208.
Isaac Errett and James Sanford Lamar
Christian Standard, Volume 6, Numbers 14 - 26 (April 8 -July 1, 1871) Pages 105 – 208.
Isaac Errett of Cincinnati, Ohio, and James Sanford Lamar of Augusta, Georgia, are editors.
OCR on these PDFs is sketchy because the images were made from microfilm, not the original volumes. Our goal is to scan the originals once we have a large format scanner.
Be sure to use the Christian Standard Index to look up topics, places, and people.
These issues have a good variety of subjects: debates; a defense of H. T. Anderson; Errett's series "Walks about Jerusalem"; better congregational singing; to name a few.
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Christian Standard, Volume 6, Numbers 27 - 39 (July 8 - September 30, 1871) Pages 209 – 312.
Isaac Errett and James Sanford Lamar
Christian Standard, Volume 6, Numbers 27 - 39 (July 8 - September 30, 1871) Pages 209 – 312.
Isaac Errett of Cincinnati, Ohio, and James Sanford Lamar of Augusta, Georgia, are editors.
OCR on these PDFs is sketchy because the images were made from microfilm, not the original volumes. Our goal is to scan the originals once we have a large format scanner.
Be sure to use the Christian Standard Index to look up topics, places, and people.
A typical section of the Christian Standard's fare, including addresses by college presidents, regional news, state missionary conventions, and reports of debates.
In an editorial on The Creed Question (page 300), Errett notes how Alexander Campbell and Moses Lard were accused of creating creeds. Errett fell victim to the same accusation when he authored A Synopsis in 1863.
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Christian Standard, Volume 6, Numbers 40 - 52 (October 7 - December 30, 1871) Pages 313 – 416.
Isaac Errett and James Sanford Lamar
Christian Standard, Volume 6, Numbers 40 - 52 (October 7 - December 30, 1871) Pages 313 – 416.
Isaac Errett of Cincinnati, Ohio, and James Sanford Lamar of Augusta, Georgia, are editors.
OCR on these PDFs is sketchy because the images were made from microfilm, not the original volumes. This section, fortunately, has better OCR than other portions of this year.
Our goal is to scan the originals once we have a large format scanner.
Be sure to use the Christian Standard Index to look up topics, places, and people.
A typical section of the Christian Standard's fare, including Alexander Hall on the creed question: What is a Creed? Reports from states and local congregations.
Page 324 mentions the Chicago fire.
The article Terms of Fellowship evokes a reply from Moses Lard in the Apostolic Times. The heart of the discussion is what is a "faction" and how do affected parties deal with the results thereof? (Pages 404, 405.)
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Christian Standard, Volume 4, Numbers 1 - 13 (January 2 - March 27, 1869) pages 1 – 104
Isaac Errett, Burke Aaron Hinsdale, and Allen Richardson Benton
Christian Standard, Volume 4, Numbers 1 - 13 (January 2 - March 27, 1869) pages 1 – 104
When Isaac Errett moved at the end of 1868 to Alliance, Ohio, to become the president of Alliance College, the Christian Standard came in tow. Although it was a little late, the January 2 issue was the first issue published at Alliance.
Associate editors were Burke Aaron Hinsdale and Allen Richardson Benton, both on staff at Alliance College with Errett,
The move to Alliance does not affect the contents. The standard fare continues, with the regular columns such as Original Essays, Querists' Drawer, Foreign Religious News, Foreign Correspondence, and news from states, regions and local congregations.
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Christian Standard, Volume 3, Number 1 -13 (January 4 - March 28, 1868) pages 1 -104.
Isaac Errett and William Theodore Horner
Christian Standard, Volume 3, Number 1 -13 (January 4 - March 28, 1868) pages 1 -104.
William Theodore Horner is Corresponding Editor.
Page 21 "To Subscribers" noted, "We are now printing six thousand copies per week, and are certain of a thousand additional names within the next three months. Our readers will share in our satisfaction over this prosperity...No weekly journal among us has ever run up such a subscription in the first two years of its history...But we still need more subscribers. Send them on."
[This optimism was unrealistic since "Within two years, [the Christian Standard] amassed such indebtedness that the incorporators were happy to turn the assts over to Isaac Errett, if he would be willing to assume the debt." (Henry E. Webb, "Christian Standard," Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement 197.)
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Christian Standard, Volume 3, Numbers 14 -26 (April 4 - June 27, 1868) pages 105 -208
Isaac Errett and William Theodore Horner
Christian Standard, Volume 3, Numbers 14 -26 (April 4 - June 27, 1868) pages 105 -208
Errett and Horner are editors.
On page 121 of the April 18 number, we note Chapter V, from A Brief History of First Efforts to Reproclaim the Ancient Gospel in the Eastern States and British Provinces by John Gale. This appears to be the last chapter. The Christian Standard Index does not list the item in the entries for John Gale, but the Index does list earlier chapters that appeared in 1867 in the 23 November and 7 December issues; in 1868 in the 25 January and 1 February issues.
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Christian Standard, Volume 3, Numbers 27 - 39 (July 4 - September 26, 1868) pages 209 – 312
Isaac Errett and William Theodore Horner
Christian Standard, Volume 3, Numbers 27 - 39 (July 4 - September 26, 1868) pages 209 – 312
The PDF lacks page 248, apparently skipped by the microfilmer.
Errett and Horner are the editors.
"A Troublesome Question" by Errett refers to an article in the Louisville, Kentucky, Western Presbyterian, 'Should Campbellites be allowed to preach in our Pulpits?' Errett uses two columns to rebut the article,
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Christian Standard, Volume 3, Numbers 40 - 52 (October 3 - December 26, 1868) pages 313 - 416
Isaac Errett and William Theodore Horner
Christian Standard, Volume 3, Numbers 40 - 52 (October 3 - December 26, 1868) pages 313 - 416
Errett and Horner are the editors.
Page 340 in the October 24 issue has an article, "What the 'Reformers' Teach," part of a significant exchange between Errett and Mr. Allen, editor of the Western Presbyterian. Errett is irked because Allen had only printed in the Western Presbyterian a brief response to Errett, although Errett had quoted in the Christian Standard significant portions of Allen's articles.
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Christian Standard, Volume 2, Numbers 27 - 39 (July 6 – September 28, 1867)
Isaac Errett
Christian Standard, Volume 2, Numbers 27 - 39 (July 6 – September 28, 1867)
The pagination of the original becomes skewed after page 255. The next page is numbered 254 and the pagination for the rest of the volume follows that sequence. The PDF omits numbers from the original pages numbered 254 and 255, so that the majority of the PDF is correctly numbered.
In the September 14 issue (Number 37) D. P. Henderson is no longer listed as Corresponding Editor.
Errett, in “Slavery Once More” (pages 306, 307), responds to an article in the Gospel Advocate by David Lipscomb.
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Christian Standard, Volume 2, Numbers 1 - 13 (January 5 - March 30, 1867)
Isaac Errett and D P. Henderson
Christian Standard, Volume 2, Numbers 1 - 13 (January 5 - March 30, 1867)
D. P. Henderson is Corresponding Editor.
Jonas Hartzell's replies in the "Iowa Debate" between Hartzell and Dick appear in several numbers.
Errett replies to Benjamin Franklin's criticism of Missionary Societies.
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Christian Standard, Volume 2, Numbers 14 - 26 (April 6 – June 29, 1867)
Isaac Errett and D P. Henderson
Christian Standard, Volume 2, Numbers 14 - 26 (April 6 – June 29, 1867)
D. P. Henderson remains a Corresponding Editor.
Jonas Hartzell's replies in the "Iowa Debate" between Hartzell and Dick appear in several numbers.
Errett replies to Benjamin Franklin's criticism of Missionary Societies.
J. T. Walsh is raising funds for Freedmen in North Carolina.
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Christian Standard, Volume 2, Numbers 40 - 52 (October 5 – December 28, 1867)
Isaac Errett and William Theodore Horner
Christian Standard, Volume 2, Numbers 40 - 52 (October 5 – December 28, 1867)
Page 314 announces W. T. Horner as Corresponding Editor, replacing D. P. Henderson, whose busy schedule as an evangelist kept him from continuing as Corresponding Editor.
Page 315 has details of the Francis W. Evans and John Steele Sweeney debate at Keosauqua,, Iowa.
Page 322 in "Notes of Travel" Errett describes a return visit to Michigan where he had ministered for eleven years. Page 330 his visit to Canada.
In "The Prospects of the Standard" (page 338) Errett feels the Standard is nearing a "self-sustaining point."
Page 359 John Gale holds forth on "The Ministry of Women."
Page 352 Errett replies to Benjamin Franklin's evolving belief about missionary societies.