however, comparatively little known at a distance; and it may not be unimportant to the cause of truth, to put all who feel an interest in the case, in possession of every particular necessary for coming to a dispassionate judgment on its merits.

Mr. Campbell was settled in the parish of Row, in Sept. 1825; but it was not until the summer of 1827, that any offence appeared to have been taken at the matter of his teaching. At that period the chief peculiarity of his sermons seemed to be the strong statements they contained on the assurance of faith, and the connexion that exists between man's belief in the testimony of God and his consciousness of being in the condition of having passed from death to life. The doctrine of the love of God to every man, as declared in the death of Christ for all, though evidently implied in his sermons, was seldom broadly or pointedly stated, and did not appear to have that prominency and importance in his mind, which it afterwards assumed.

Toward the close of the year 1828, it is believed in the month of December, the first attempt was made to bring the subject matter of Mr. Campbell's teaching under the consideration of the church courts, About this time, a petition, signed by a few individuals, was lodged with the presbytery of Dumbarton, in which a variety of charges were brought against Mr. C., and among others his having taught that there was no occasion for repentance-no such thing as a good hope through grace-that Christ was no lawgiver, &c. &c. After this petition was received by the Presbytery, and, it is believed, after part of it was taken down in the Minutes, it was discovered to bear

no date, an informality which made it necessary to return it to the petitioners.

In March, 1829, another petition of the same tenor, signed by three or four individuals (none of them of the number of those who subsequently brought forward the libel) was presented to the Presbytery. Only two of the petitioners appeared. Of these the name of one was struck off the petition, as it appeared that he had, for many years, been refused church privileges, and consequently could not be considered a member of the church. The other was prevailed upon, by one of Mr. Campbell's co-presbyters, to withdraw the petition for a time. This petition was never afterwards presented; nor did any of the same parties again appear before the Presbytery in any matter connected with this case.

On the 30th March, 1830, the following Memorial was presented to the Presbytery.

Memorial of the undersigned Heads of Families and others in communion with the Church of Row, to the Reverend the Presbytery of Dumbarton.

Your memorialists wish to remind your Reverend Presbytery of a petition presented to you about a year ago, signed by certain of our fellow parishioners, representing that certain unsound pernicious doctrines, contrary to Scripture and the Standards of the National Church, had, for some time, been constantly preached and taught in Row church and parish, by the Rev. John M. Campbell, minister of that parish.

Your memorialists had earnestly hoped that mature reflection during the twelve months for which it had been agreed in the Presbytery to defer the proceedings on the petition, would have led to a cure of the evil complained of. But not only have the original obnoxious tenets been inculcated by Mr. Campbell with increased earnestness ever sinceit is with deep sorrow we say it but a number of other "unprofitable questions" have been agitated, and doctrines, in