Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE SERMON ON THE LAW. Mr. Campbell's introduction to the Baptist body was an opportunity for the dissemination of his views which he was quick to appreciate and improve. He did not need to force himself upon their recognition, for his exceptional powers as a speaker brought him into immediate favor and requisition by Baptist churches in a wide circle about his home, which gradually extended as they became acquainted with him. He was claimed by the Baptists and as a matter of course wherever he went Baptist churches were open to him, where he found an audience already called together and waiting for him. On every such occasion the subject of his discourse were the principles of the new reformation which he felt called to advocate. This is characteristically illustrated on a trip he made to Philadelphia and the East to collect money among Baptist churches to build a Baptist meeting-house in Charlestown, Virginia. His wife's father and mother, shortly after the union with the Redstone Association, were immersed and received into the Brush Run church. This church had decided by a vote to move as a body to Zanesville, Ohio; but to prevent the removal of Campbell and his wife, her father, Mr. Brown, deeded to his son-in-law his farm. Finding himself thus cumbered with his new possessions he concluded not to emigrate with the church to Ohio. This action resulted in the abandonment of the enterprise by the entire congregation. Mr. Brown removed his family to Charlestown to engage in business. His church membership was placed with the Baptist Church at Cross Creek, three miles from Charlestown. Charlestown was without a meeting-house of any kind. To provide one for the use of the Baptists, Mr. Campbell volunteered his services for four months to solicit funds. He wen...