The principles and objects of the religious reformation, urged by A. Campbell and others
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The Principles and Objects of the Religious Reformation, Urged by A. Campbell and Others (Classic Reprint)
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MY dear F. - I proceed, according to promise, to lay before you the general principles and objects of the Reformation Which has been, for some time, urged upon the religious communities, both of this country and the British Isles. And this I do With the more pleasure, as I know you have not given heed to those misrepresentations by which its ene mies have endeavored to impede its progress, and that you are, yourself, sensible of the many evils ih duced by that sectarism from Which it is the great purpose of the present Reformation to relieve society.
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Robert Richardson was an American physician, college professor, and author.
Background
Robert Richardson was born on September 25, 1806 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents, Nathaniel and Julia (Logan) Richardson, were both born in Ireland. Nathaniel Richardson, an Episcopalian and one of the first vestrymen of Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, was also, in 1815, the first contributor to a fund which Alexander Campbell raised to build a Baptist church in Charleston, Virginia (now Wellsburg, West Virginia).
Education
In 1816 he placed his father placed him in a school conducted by Thomas Campbell in Pittsburgh. Two years later the boy became a pupil of Walter Scott, who after a few months spent in studying the Haldanean and Scotch Baptist churches in New York, Baltimore, and Washington, came to live and conduct a school in the Richardson home. Robert was confirmed in the Episcopal church about 1824 and became a member of Trinity Church. After further study with private tutors he was enrolled in the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania for one year, 1826-27. He also studied medicine under Dr. P. Morey of Pittsburgh. Later he received an A. M. degree from Jefferson College.
Career
By 1829 he had begun practice thirteen miles west of Pittsburgh. He was, in his own words, "still a member of the Episcopal church, though at the time in communion with the Presbyterian church in the neighborhood. " Scott, who meanwhile had come under the influence of Alexander Campbell and had adopted the views of the "Reformers, " soon to be called the Disciples of Christ, and had been evangelizing in the Western Reserve, visited Richardson and expounded to him "baptism for the remission of sins" and the program of the Reformers for the restoration of primitive Christianity.
A few days later Richardson followed Scott to Shalersville, Ohio, a three-day journey on horseback, and was immersed in June 1829. After his immersion, Richardson received a letter of protest from his former rector at Trinity Church, John Henry Hopkins, to which he replied in two open letters in Campbell's magazine, the Christian Baptist, signed "Discipulus. "
His devotion to the new cause was prompt and zealous. Continuing to practise medicine, he preached, evangelized, and made several converts. Early in 1830 he moved to Wellsburg where for four years he divided his time between medicine and the care of the church and visits to neighboring churches. To the first volume of Campbell's new magazine, the Millennial Harbinger, he contributed seven essays on Regeneration, defining it as "a begetting by the Spirit through the Gospel, and a subsequent birth of water in baptism. "
From Wellsburg, Richardson moved to Carthage, Ohio, where Scott was publishing the Evangelist, to which he contributed articles distinguishing between the Kingdom of Heaven and the Church. Early in 1836 Campbell invited Richardson to move to Bethany "to assist him in the editorial duties of the Harbinger. " Although he is announced as co-editor only for the years 1848-52, he had close relations with the magazine and bore heavy responsibilities on it for many years both before and after those dates. When Bethany College was opened in 1841 under the presidency of Campbell, Richardson was one of the four elected to constitute its first faculty.
He remained on the faculty until 1859, first as professor of chemistry and geology, later teaching also physiology, botany, and rhetoric, and taking Campbell's classes during his many absences. From 1859 to 1865 he was vice-president of Kentucky University, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, after which he returned to Bethany and served as lecturer on the Bible, 1865-67.
In the latter year he retired to his farm-home, "Bethphage, " on a hillside two and a half miles from Bethany to write, at the subject's request, the memoirs of Alexander Campbell, who had died in 1866. Throughout his life he continued the practice of medicine so far as permitted by the pressure of other duties - teaching, preaching, writing, and conducting a model farm.
He lived on his farm during all his years at Bethany, riding back and forth on horseback daily without, it is said, a single tardiness in twenty-five years - even at early chapel. He was a pioneer in agricultural experiment and made regular reports to the government on crops and weather conditions long before there was a Department of Agriculture or a Weather Bureau.
He died at Bethany, West Virginia, in his seventy-first year.
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Interests
An accomplished linguist, he had a good command of French and a reading knowledge of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. He played the violin and flute, composed music for both instruments, and painted pictures and wrote poetry for his own entertainment.
Connections
His wife was Rebecca Encell, to whom he was married at Wheeling, Virginia, April 10, 1831. They had five sons and five daughters.