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The Stone-Campbell Movement: The Story of the American Restoration Movement is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Stone-Campbell Movement was a nineteenth-century movement that sought to unify Christians under one body and return to apostolic Christianity. Its focus was to disassociate from denominationalism and restore primitive Christianity. Its two prominent leaders, Barton W. Stone and Thomas Campbell originally started the restoration movements independently, but united their vision in 1832. While...

of human life turns, the philosopher had best follow the multitude or make himself look ridiculous. After all, he points out, when the common man smells a rose for the first time he knows that it is a new fragrance to him, and the next time he meets that smell he knows that it is a rose that he is smelling. Common sense for common people! The Campbells had high regard for ordinary folk. Their plea appealed to the common people because they could understand it and they saw something in it for them.
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