apostate Christendom what the Spirit saith to saints in Babylon —‘Come out of her, my people, that you partake not of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues’— had we imagined that the Lord had no people beyond the pale of our communion!’’72 At one time Campbell had thought ‘‘of our own community, that it is a nucleus around which may one day congregate all the children of God.’’73 But by 1837 he was not so sure. It seemed to him that his ‘‘commu- nity’’ had grown far too narrow to accommodate