. Fashion has a great deal to do with the
attendance. It is the fashion to go to church. It is not the fashion to
run after new sects or preachers of new doctrines. In a flourishing
church there are societies which bring people into contact with one
another--these promote in their turn, like the far-famed ale of Trinity,
"brotherly neighbourhood." The old ladies get a habit of
gossiping--Jones, Brown, and Robinson take tea together--and then young
people form alliances in consequence often of a serious and matrimonial
character. It is uphill work, then, in London for a little isolated
cause. The odds against its permanent success are infinite. Still the
Campbellites are making way. They have a fine base of operations in
America, and they are spreading over England,--if they are not doing much
in the Metropolis. They are good, pious people, and earnest in the
conviction that they alone understand and maintain apostolical charity;
and deeply deploring the present divided and unhappy state of the
Christian Church, and with a view to unity, they increase the number of
divisions by withdrawing from all other religious bodies, and forming a
fresh one of their own.

Who are the Campbellites? I will endeavour to answer the question.
Their creed, as they tell us, is simply the Messiahship. According to
them, the Christian creed thus presents for individual and immediate
acceptance the one living, personal, loving, Divine, all-wise and
omnipotent Saviour from ignorance, sin, and rebellion. Humanly devised
and written creeds demand faith in abstract metaphysical, theological,
ecclesiastical, and political propositions, and have so effectually
supplanted the good confession, that though admitted as a doctrine, few
churches or professors of the present day would consider themselves safe
in depending solely on its saving faith or belief in God's testimony as
contained in His Word, as delivered by apostles and prophets, and as
corroborated by signs and wonders, and divers miracles and gifts of the
Holy Spirit. Campbellism distinguishes the Gospel not only from the
words of men, but from Scripture generally--that Jesus is its subject.
It apprehends him not only as Jesus of Nazareth, but as God manifest in
the flesh--the Son and Christ of the Father consecrated to the high
offices of Prophet, Priest, and King. It recognises the applicability
and reference of the Saviour's mission and work to the individual himself
as clea