About the Book
Tired of new creeds and parties in religion, and of the numerous abortive efforts to reform the reformation; convinced from the Holy Scriptures, from observation and experience that the union of the disciples of Christ is essential to the conversion of the world, and began to reflect upon the ways and means to restore primitive christianity.
The Bible alone is the Bible only, in word and deed, in profession and practice; and this alone can reform the world and save the church. The object of this volume is to place before the community in a plain, definite, and perspicuous style, the capital principles which have been elicited, argued out, developed, and sustained in a controversy of twenty-five years, by the tongues and pens of those who rallied under the banners of the Bible alone.

About the Author
Alexander Campbell was born September 12, 1788 near Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland. He was educated at the University of Glasgow. At age 21, Alexander traveled from Scotland, to join his father, Thomas who had migrated to America in 1807. Alexander quickly became a significant leader among the American Restoration Movemnt. He edited and published two journals: The Christian Baptist and The Millennial Harbinger. He wrote several books, including The Christian System. He also wrote hymns, including “Upon the Banks of Jordan Stood.” Campbell compiled and published a translation of the New Testament under the title The Living Oracles. He served as a delegate to the Virginia constitutional convention held in the 1830s. In 1840, He founded Bethany College in Bethany, Virginia (now Bethany, West Virginia). Campbell died March 4, 1866.