The distinctive teachings of the Reformation are outlined in the Millennial Harbinger for 1854, page 181, as follows:

      All societies--literary, philosophical, political, moral or religious--have their origin, progress, and destiny. Each and every one of them, in its own history, more or less develops the problem of human nature and human destiny. Their true history is, in fact, true philosophy teaching by example. Hence, of all literary pursuits, none is more suggestive and exegetical, and, consequently, none more popular and instructive, than the study of history in general; and if the proper study of mankind be man, then man in his whole constitution, relations and destiny, is, par excellence, the darling theme of history; and if the moral and religious elements in man are his grand, essential, differential attributes, then the study of the religious and ecclesiastic character and condition of a people, more than any other study, enlarges, humanizes, elevates and ennobles the human soul, and introduces man into the true sanctum sanctorum of his own nature, moral grandeur and destiny.

[A. C.]      

Source:

Alexander Campbell. Extract from "Disciples of Christ, Christians, Reformers.--No. I." The Millennial Harbinger 25 (April 1854): 181.

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