The Millennial Harbinger - Softcover

Alexander Campbell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371337372 ISBN 13: 9780371337370

Publisher: HardPress, 2019

Synopsis

The Millennial Harbinger by Alexander Campbell is a mid-19th-century American religious periodical issue (December 1849) that collects sermons, polemical essays, editorials, dialogues, obituaries, and memorials within a Restoration/Baptist reform context. It advocates primitive, biblically centered Christianity over worldly hierarchies, promotes believer’s baptism by immersion, congregational polity, and the restoration of apostolic practice. The issue features debates on church governance, discipline, and the role of Bible societies, missions, and Sunday schools; profiles and memorials of early reformers like Bunyan and Kiffin; and a series of dialogues, such as Romans-centered conversations, used to model devotional pedagogy. It also engages social reform topics of the era—public health, abolitionist arguments in Kentucky, and peace arbitration—seen through a evangelical lens that emphasizes scriptural authority, education, and charitable action. The tone is combative, exhortatory, and ecumenically reformist, aiming to unify Baptists around a shared biblical framework.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371337372
• ISBN 13: 9780371337370
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 740