Self-examination is the most peremptory duty that we owe to ourself, our Creator and our Redeemer. A wicked man must fear and tremble in the presence of his own conscience, when that conscience condemns him of a known and wilful sin against his Creator or his Redeemer. It is the paramount duty of every man to listen to the testimony of his own conscience. To bribe it is moral suicide. --Alexander Campbell.

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     We have been always accused of aspiring to build up and head a party, while in truth we have always been forced to occupy the ground on which we now stand. I have for one or two years past labored to annul this impression, which I know is more secretly and generally bandied about than one in a hundred of our brethren may suspect. On this account I consented the more readily to defend Protestantism; and I have, in more ways than I shall now state, endeavored to show the Protestant public that it is with the greatest reluctance we are compelled to stand aloof from them--that they are the cause of this "schism," as they call it, and not we. --Alexander Campbell.