Members of these groups reject this term and in fact find it to be derisive, saying that they are followers of Jesus, not Mr. Campbell, and follow him only to the extent that he was attempting to follow Christ. Adherents cite the first chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians as condemnation of taking human names, and also draw parallels with Martin Luther's protest of the name "Lutherans." It is also often pointed out that the Restoration movement predated Campbell.
The group was originally called reformed Baptist, later resulting in denominations including Disciples of Christ and Church of Christ.
Other prominent individuals in the movement include Sidney Rigdon and Parley P. Pratt, who, along with more than 3,000 of their congregation converted to Mormonism in the 1830s in Ohio.
Let a Baptist or Campbellite, or other church, remain in "nothing but peace and prosperity" undisturbed, and there is no chance of a soul of them coming to the knowledge of the gospel preached by Jesus and his apostles.
The Campbellite body is not the "One Body." It is infidel of the "One hope of the calling." Its faith is not the "One Faith," but a mere belief of facts; and its immersion is not the "One Baptism," because it is not predicated on the one faith of the things hoped for and unseen.
Campbellite churches profess indeed to be united together on the principles indicated; but we have learned to know that "profession is not principle" in this world of hypocrisy and sham.
When "Campbellites" declare that the Methodist Discipline says that "justification by faith only is a most wholesome doctrine" the "Doctor" says the "quotation is exact." But when they believe Methodists teach what they say in that "exact quotation" and pass the word on to others, such is a "plain misrepresentat- ion" of Methodism.
The "contemptible Campbellites," according to "Doc- tor" Garner's expert and elegant diagnosis, are a group of deluded ignoramuses or notorious liars.
When, therefore, the poor wretched "Campbellites" state that Baptists teach that baptism is not essential to salvation they are neither ignorant nor lying but are stating what Baptist preachers have always taught.
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