student in the first Grammar School ever formed in this country. Having finished the Latin, and made some progress in the French and Greek languages, he went to Virginia to complete his education. He passed through a course of Science and Belles Lettres with the learned and truly estimable Mr. A. Scott, of Augusta county, whose Academy produced several useful and highly reputable characters in public life. Having completed the usual course of scientific reading, and not knowing what profession to choose, he went, in the autumn of 1787, to Williamsborough, Granville county, North Carolina, where he engaged (though not yet twenty years of age) in conducting an Academy. There he continued till the autumn of 1789, devoting his leisure, which was considerable, to general reading, and partially to the study of medicine. Having bad health, he returned to his native county, in the mountains of Virginia, and spent the succeeding winter in the study of Theology and the Sacred Scriptures.

In May, 1790, he went to Hampden Sidney College, then under the Presidency of the great and eloquent John Blair Smith, of precious memory, where he employed six months in study, and graduated in company with Messrs. T. C. Poage, William Williamson, and David Smith, but continued in College until the next May, 1791, pursuing a course of general reading; for the most part theological. Soon after this he commenced a regular course of theological reading, under the Rev. Messrs. Graham and Hoge, and was licensed to preach the Gospel of Christ in May, 1792.

In July, 1793, he was ordained and installed, as a collegiate minister with Mr. Graham, in the congregations of Oxford, New-Monmouth, Lexington, and TimberRidge,

In 1795, he removed to Kentucky, where he contin ued eighteen years, performing the duties of the ministerial office in various congregations, in the counties of Fleming, Mercer, Jessamine, Fayette, Woodford, Franklin, and others. During these labours, he continued to prosecute, at leisure hours, the study of medicine; and being constrained by the necessities of a numerous family, he was for many years engaged in the successful practice of physic. Yet he frequently regretted that he could not devote the whole of his time to the work of the ministry. It was during this period, moreover, that he added to his literary store a knowledge of the Hebrew language, which was eminently serviceable to him in his pastoral and polemical labours,

The following is an accurate list of his publications, viz.

1. A Sermon on Sacred Music, 1797.

2. The Passenger, 1804.

3. Strictures on Barton W. Stone's Letters, 1805.7 4. Essays on Justification, 1805,

5. Vindex, 1806.

6. An Installation Sermon, 1809.

7. Letters to Thomas B. Craighead, 1810.

3. A Sermon on Christian Baptism, 1810.

9. The Pelagian Detected, 1811.

10. Letters to a Gentleman of the Bar, and other pieces in the "Evangelical Record," 1812.

11. Answer to Jones, and Review of Robinson on Baptism, 1812.

12. A Sermon preached at the opening of the Synod of Kentucky, 1812.

The Getleman of the Bar, for whom the Letters published in the Evangelical Record, were intended, and to whom they were in fact sent in MS. was the celebrated Joseph H. Davies, afterwards Major Davies, who fell in the battle of Tippecanoe. During an affectionate acquaintance of many years, Dr. Campbell perceived that the gigantic but eccentric mind of this truly eminent attorney was captivated with the fanciful theory of Dr. Darwin. This he successfully exposed. His acquaintance with medicine and medical authors was always devoted to the promotion of religion. His able pulpit refutation of Dr. Rush's Materialism, was made known to that father of American physicians, and occasioned him to treat Dr. Campbell with much coolness, when introduced to him by Dr. Alexander in Philadelphia in 1812. An occurrence, which took place on his journey to the city, may not be unworthy of notice. He and a young friend of his lodged in a tavern which entertained for the night a traveller of opposite sentiments. The young friend commenced a conversation on religion, in which he soon got beyond his depth, as the traveller began to descant, with considerable eloquence and applause, upon the atheistical system of Darwin. The young man found means to engage his more learned companion in the conversation. The greatest absurdities of the system were quoted by the

Dr. and denied by the traveller. "The very words

could be shown," said the former, "if I had a copy of the Botanical Garden." "You shall have it," said this eccentric pilgrim, and immediately drew one out of his saddlebags. The passages were directly found, and an angry blush suffused his cheek.

It is believed that Dr. Campbell's works on Christian Baptism are considered by the eastern literati among the most able which have appeared in our country. And it is said upon good authority, that, in consequence of this, he was about to receive, in company with the Rev. J. J. Janeway, of Philadelphia, a Doctor te from Nassau Hall. He was prevented, however, by being unexpectedly called to the higher honours of a better world. His Review of Robinson's history of Baptism was published before the American edition of that work appeared. The genuine European edition contained some sentiments which, after Dr. Campbel's exposure, were deemed too gross for republication in this country. The most palpable, dishonesty, also, detected by the Review, is covered in our copy by an arbitrary alteration of the text, without the fact being notified to the reader. There are still, however, sufficient traits of Socinianism and Infidelity in the work to justify its heavy condemnation by Fuller and the Orthodox Baptists of England, and to render its editor and patrons in this country inexcusable for its circula

tion.

His greatest labour was spent in the defence of the doctrines of the reformation, in opposition to Mr. Themas B. Craighead, and his disciple, Mr. Barton W. Stone, both deposed for vital errors. in these contro

versies he had, most manifestly, a great advantage in talents as well as in truth. He had an active hand in the struggle of the church in those trying times, and set a bright example of self-denial and zeal, patience and fidelity.

He had collected materials and issued proposals for publishing, by subscription, a literary work, to be entitled Western Antiquities; and had it also in contempla tion to publish a history of the Church in the Western country: but it pleased God to remove him before eith er of these works was prepared for the press.

In the autumn of the year 1813, he moved to the neighbourhood of Chillicothe, state of Ohio, and died there in October 1814. The Chillicothe Recorder; from which much of the above information is copied, thus anounced his death:

"It has become our duty to announce the death of our respected friend, JOHN P. CAMPBELL. On October 24th, he was taken with a fever, which in a few days exhausted his strength, and terminated his life. In the evening of the 4th inst. he departed, having a few weeks before completed the 46th year of his age.

In him, society has lost one of her most useful members, and one of her brightest ornaments. He possessed strong natural powers, well improved by education, and extensive reading. His talents, we believe, were faithfully employed for the honour of his God and the good of mankind. He was distinguished as a naturalist, having carefully studied the works of the Creator. He was an accurate linguist, an able logician, an eloquent writer and speaker, a skillful physician, a sound