Whitfield. In or about 1831 Dr. Campbell became the
minister, and at the same time found leisure to write in _The Patriot_
newspaper; to fight and beat the trustees of the Tottenham Court Road,
who had allowed the affairs of the chapel to get into a most disorderly
state; to make speeches at public meetings; to write in a monthly that
has long ceased to exist--_The Eclectic Review_--a review to which I had
occasionally the honour of contributing when it was edited by Dr.
Price;--and to publish a good many books which had a fair sale in his
day. Dr. Campbell had also much to do with the abolition of the Bible
printing monopoly--a movement originated by Dr. Adam Thomson, of
Coldstream, powerfully supported by one of my earliest friends, Mr. John
Childs, a spirited and successful printer at Bungay, whose one-volume
editions of standard authors, such as Bacon's works, Milton's, and
Gibbon's "Decline and Pall of the Roman Empire," are still to be seen on
the shelves of second-hand booksellers. The Queen's Printer affected to
believe that the Bible could not be supplied to the public with equal
efficiency or cheapness on any other system than that which gave him the
monopoly of printing, but as it was proved before a Committee of the
House of Commons that the Book could be printed at much less cost and in
every way equal to the copies then in existence, the monopoly was
destroyed.

In 1830 there came into existence the Congregational Union of England and
Wales, of which Dr. Campbell became one of the leading men. He was at
the same time editor of _The Christian Witness_ and _The Christian's
Penny Magazine_--the organs of the Union--both of which at that time
secured what was then considered a very enormous sale. When in 1835 Mr.
Nasmith came to London to establish his City Mission Dr. Campbell was one
of his earliest supporters and friends. The next great work which he
took in hand was the establishment of _The British Banner_, a religious
paper for the masses, in answer to an appeal made to him by the committee
of _The Patriot_ newspaper. The first number of the new journal appeared
in 1848, and gained a circulation hitherto unknown in a weekly paper, and
this in time was succeeded by _The British Standard_. As time passed on
Dr. Campbell became less popular. He had rather too keen a scent for
what was termed neology. In one case his zeal involved him in a libel
suit and the verdict was for the plaintiff, who was aw