ERRATA.

In page 142, line 20, for This read The.

146, line 4 from bottom, for has read hast.

150, line 15, for in Rom. 8th read on Rom. 8th.

172, line 12, for charm read chain.

176, line 12, for several read severer

182, note, before kindness insert professional.

208, line 16, for that read than.

225, line 29, for mead read meed.

ADVERTISEMENT.

DISCUSSION OF BAPTISM.

In June, 1820, there was, in Mount Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio, a public debate on Baptism, between Mr. John Walker, a minister of the Associate Church, and Mr. Alexander Campbell, an Arian Baptist. At the close of that conference, Mr Campbell spoke as follows, viz. "I have now "accepted the invitation or challenge of the Seceders, and having now fully "satisfied their most eager desires for an interview of this kind, I conceive "it is my time to give an invitation or challenge to any Pedo-Baptist mi"nister; and to return the compliment with the utmost ceremoniousness, "I this day publish to all present, that I feel disposed to meet any Pedo"Baptist minister of any denomination, of good standing in his party, and "I engage to prove in a debate with him, either viva voce, or with the pen, "that Infant Sprinkling is a human tradition, and injurious to the well"being of society religious and political. I have to add, that I must have "an equal vote, in determining the time and place. This is the only re"striction I attach to the challenge I now publish." This professed challenge, as its author repeatedly calls it, was published in Mr. Campbell's printed account of the debate, which Mr. Walker afterward proved to be spurious. In consequence of an application from an important friend and partizan of Mr. Campbell's, I was induced, in the year 1823, to send him an acceptance of his challenge. This introduced a correspondence, which terminated in a public conference of seven days in Washington, Mason county, Kentucky, in October 1823. There was no stenographer engaged. Yet Mr. Campbell has been so kind as to write a volume of speeches for me, without my ever thinking of imposing such a task upon him. If God permit, the merits of his performance, and the character and testimony of his friends who have aided him, and certified for him, may be the subject of free animadversion, hereafter. This controversy is as interesting in Kentucky, as Universalism is in Philadelphia. The reason is, that Arianism and all other evils, are brought in under the cloak of Anti-Pedobaptism. Real Christian Baptists are the objects of my sincere love. Among them, I have dear relatives and friends in the West and in the East. Mr. Campbell would deprive me of their friendship by writing speeches for me. When Providence will permit me, in consistency with pastoral duties, and a proper regard to health, it is my earnest wish, and my fixed design to publish my own argument, with Mr. Campbell, as I have with Mr. Kneeland. And that I have the means of doing it, Mr. Campbell well knows, since he made as frequent and as doleful complaints of my little book, as did the Universalist champion. Meanwhile I wish it to be understood that I do not consider myself responsible for the follies which Mr. Campbell may forge for me.

W. L. M'C.

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