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NO. 6

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      Any serious student of Thomas Campbell's life and work must use, in addition to the works listed below, the files of The Christian Baptist and of The Millennial Harbinger. He must be familiar with Richardson's Memoirs of Alexander Campbell and with the basic books dealing with the general history and doctrine of the Disciples of Christ.

      Although Thomas Campbell wrote little, compared to his son Alexander, his Declaration and Address is probably the most widely distributed piece of literature published by the Disciples It has been reprinted many times as a single booklet and has been included in the body or as an appendix of numerous books.

      The Declaration and Address likely was not given is an address, but was a document intended as a means of carrying into effect the important ends of the Christian Association of Washington. The writing of it was authorized at a meeting held on the headwaters of the Buffalo, August 17, 1809.

      The Christian Association, which had held its early meetings in its member's homes, erected a log meeting place on the Sinclair farm about three miles front Mount Pleasant, upon the road leading from Washington to that place, at the point where it was crossed by the road from Middletown to Canonsburg. The building was used also as a school.

      Near the house was the residence of Mr. Welch. Here Thomas Campbell composed the document that he read to the committee which authorized its publication, September 7, 1809.

      Declaration and Address of the Christian Association of Washington. Washington, Pa., Printed by Brown & Sample, at the office of "The Reporter," 1809. 56 p.
      Reprinted many times; a facsimile edition was published in 1909 and the most recent printing is that of the Bethany Press in 1955.

      Prospectus of a Religious Reformation; The Object of Which Is the Restoration of Primitive Apostolic Christianity in Letter and Spirit--in Principle and Practice. [Bethany, Va., ?. Printed by A. Campbell, ?, 183- ?] 12 p.

      On Religious Reformation. [Richmond, Va., ?, 1832?] 16 p.

BOLES, Henry Leo
      "Thomas Campbell." (In his Biographical Sketches of Gospel Preachers, 1932, pp. 13-18.)

CAMPBELL, Alexander
      Memoirs of Elder Thomas Campbell Together With a Brief Memoir of Mrs. Jane Campbell. Cincinnati, O., H. S. Bosworth, 1861. 319 p., front. (port.)
      Reprinted in 1871; photolithoprinted in 1954 by the Old Paths Book Club, Rosemead, Calif.

HALEY, Jesse James
      "Thomas Campbell, Creative Personality of the Union Movement of the Nineteenth Century." (In his Makers and Molders of the Reformation Movement, 1914, pp. 11-24.)

HANNA, William Herbert
      Thomas Campbell, Seceder and Christian Union Advocate. Cincinnati, O., Standard Publishing Co., 1935, 222 p., front. (port.)

HAYDEN, Warren Luse
      "Thomas Campbell and the Declaration," (In his Centennial Addresses Delivered in 1909, 1909, pp. 3-11.)

KERSHNER, Frederick Doyle
      The Christian Union Overture, an Interpretation of the Declaration and Address of Thomas Campbell. St. Louis, Mo., Bethany Press, 1923. 158 p.

McALLISTER, Lester Grover, Jr.
      Thomas Campbell; Man of the Book. St. Louis, Mo., Bethany Press, 1954. 294 p., port., bibliography, index. (Bethany History, Series.)
      The research for this book was done as a Th.D. dissertation at the Pacific School of Religion, 1953.

McLEAN, Archibald
      Thomas and Alexander Campbell. Cincinnati, O., Foreign Christian Missionary Society, 1910. 62 p., front. (port.), port.

SNODDY, Elmer Ellsworth
      "Thomas and Alexander Campbell, Pioneers of Christian Union." (In his Texas State Convention Addresses. 1931, pp, 10-13.)

TIERS, Montgomery C.
      "Thomas Campbell." (In his The Christian Portrait Gallery, 1864, pp. 55-60.)

WILLETT, Herbert Lockwood
      Thomas Campbell and the Principles He Promulgated, an Address Delivered at the Centennial Convention of the Disciples of Christ, at Pittsburgh, Pa., Saturday, October Nineteen Hundred and Nine. n. p., United Religious Press, n.d. 12 p.
      At head of title: The Memorial Pulpit.

FRALEY, Adrian V.
      The Historical Setting and Some Influences of the Declaration and Address as Reflected in the Religious Press From 1810 to 1860. B.D., Christian Theological Seminary, 1946.

HUBER, Robert Titus
      The Doctrine of Trinity in the Thought of Thomas and Alexander Campbell--Including a Comparison With the Thought of Barton W. Stone and Walter Scott. B.D., Christian Theological Seminary, 1956.

HUMPHRIES, Ward Stewart
      The Theology of the Campbells in Relation to the Disciples. B.D., Christian Theological Seminary, 1935.

JOHNSON, Harry Eugene
      Principles and Projections of the Declaration and Address, [of Thomas Campbell]. B.D., Phillips University, 1953.

McALLISTER, Lester Grover
      Thomas Campbell: Man of the Book. Th.D., Pacific School of Religion, 1953. (Published: St. Louis, Bethany Press, 1954.)

[Discipliana 20 (January 1961): 80-81.]

      "Thomas Campbell, 1763-1854 . . . Books by and about Him" was first published in Discipliana, Vol. 20, No. 6, January 1961 (pp. 80-81). Thanks to Peter M. Morgan, President of the Disciples of Christ Historical Society, for permission to reprint this bibliography as an electronic text at the Restoration Movement site. Thanks to Elaine Philpott for providing a copy of the printed text, from which the electronic text has been produced.

      I have let stand variations and inconsistencies in the author's (or editor's) use of italics, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in the bibliography. Emendations are as follows:

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      Addenda and corrigenda are earnestly solicited.

Ernie Stefanik
Derry, PA

Created 20 November 1997.
Updated 5 July 2003.