arded by the jury
forty shillings damages instead of the 5,000 pounds he had claimed. In
the Rivulet Controversy, as it was termed, Dr. Campbell was not quite so
successful. Mr. Lynch was a poet, and preached, as his health was bad,
to a small but select congregation in the Hampstead Road. He published a
volume of refined and thoughtful poetry which has many admirers to this
day. The late Mr. James Grant--a Scotch baker who had taken to
literature and written several remarkably trashy books, the most popular
of which was "Random Recollections of the House of Commons,"--at that
time editor of the publican's paper, _The Morning Advertiser_, in his
paper described the work of Mr. Lynch as calculated to inspire pain and
sadness in the minds of all who knew what real religion was. Against
this view a powerful protest was made by many leading men of the body to
which Mr. Lynch belonged. At this stage of the controversy Dr. Campbell
struck in by publishing letters addressed to the principal professors of
the Independent and Baptist colleges of England, showing that the hymns
of Mr. Lynch were very defective as regards Evangelical truth--containing
less of it than the hymns ordinarily sung by the Unitarians. The
excitement in Dissenting circles was intense. The celebrated Thomas
Binney, of the King's Weigh House Chapel, took part with Mr. Lynch and
complained of Dr. Campbell in the ensuing meetings of the Congregational
Union, and so strong was the feeling on the subject that a large party
was formed to request the Congregational Union formally to sever their
official connexion with Dr. Campbell--a matter not quite so easy as had
been anticipated. One result, however, was that Dr. Campbell gave up the
editing of _The British Banner_ and established _The British Standard_ to
take its place, in which the warfare against what is called Neology was
carried on with accelerated zeal. In 1867 the Doctor's laborious career
came to an end happily in comfort and at peace with all. His biographers
assure the reader that Dr. Campbell's works will last till the final
conflagration of the world. Alas! no one reads them now.

To come to later times, of course my most vivid recollections are those
connected with the late Mr. Spurgeon. In that region of the metropolis
known as "over the water" the Baptists flourish as they do nowhere else,
and some of their chapels have an interesting history. Amongst many of
them rather what is ca