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Barton was born on December 24, 1772 near Port Tobacco, Maryland, United States, reared in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
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Barton was born on December 24, 1772 near Port Tobacco, Maryland, United States, reared in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
In 1790, with the intention of becoming a barrister, he entered the academy at Guilford, North Carolina, conducted by Rev. David Caldwell.
Converted under the influences by the preaching of James McGready, Stone became in 1793 a candidate for the ministry in the Orange Presbytery and put himself under the tutelage of Rev. William Hodge. Confused and depressed by the theology he encountered, he went to his brother's home in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, and soon became teacher of languages at the seminary of the Methodist preacher, Hope Hull, in Washington, Georgia.
Returning to North Carolina in 1796, he was licensed by the Orange Presbytery. After itinerant preaching in Tennessee, he took charge of the churches at Cane Ridge and Concord, Bourbon County, Ky. , and was ordained in 1798, accepting the Confession with the proviso "so far as I can see it consistent with the word of God", for some of the doctrines of Calvinism still troubled him.
The Great Revival, which had a notable manifestation at Cane Ridge, brought the conservative and "New Light" forces of the Presbyterian Church into sharp conflict. As a result, in September 1803, Stone and four others withdrew from the Synod of Kentucky and formed the Springfield Presbytery. They issued a three-fold "Apology, " setting forth in detail their reasons for this act, the second section of which was written by Stone.
The following year, convinced that there is no authority in the New Testament for such an ecclesiastical organization, they dissolved the presbytery, signed its "Last Will and Testament, " and agreed to acknowledge no name but Christian and no creed but the Bible.
The remainder of Stone's life was spent chiefly in evangelical work and the establishment of churches. For the remarkable growth of the movement in Kentucky and Ohio he was largely responsible.
Some two years later they settled in Lexington, in which place and afterwards in Georgetown Stone taught school in connection with his religious activities. In 1826 he started a paper called the Christian Messenger.
With the growth in Kentucky of the Disciples of Christ, as the Campbellites were called, Stone urged cooperation with them. At a conference held in his church at Lexington on January 1, 1832, the Christians and Disciples agreed to act as one, and Rev. John T. Johnson, a Disciple, became coeditor of the Christian Messenger. A complete amalgamation never took place, however, and a religious body known as Christian persisted.
In 1834 he moved to Jacksonville, Illinois; he continued, however, to edit the Messenger and to carry on evangelistic work. His tendency to theological speculation occasioned controversial pamphlets and led to his being denounced as a Unitarian.
Stone died at the home of his son-in-law, Captain S. A. Bowen, in Hannibal, Missouri.
Barton Warren Stone was an influencial Presbyterian minister, who together with four other ministers of the Washington Presbytery resigned after arguments about doctrine and enforcement of policy by the Kentucky Synod. Stone also helped lead the mammoth Cane Ridge Revival, a several-day communion season attended by nearly 20, 000 persons. His important publications: Atonement (1805), A Reply to John P. Campbell's Strictures on Atonement (1805) and others.
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On July 2, 1801, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel William and Tabitha (Russell) Campbell.
His wife having died in 1810, he married, October 31, 1811, her cousin, Celia Wilson Bowen, daughter of William and Mary Bowen. By his first marriage he had had five children; by the second, six.
