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Encyclopedia of Religion entry forCampbellitesThe followers of Alexander Camp-bell (1786-1866). Born in Ireland, Campbell went to the United States in 1809. Here he became pastor of a Presbyterian church in Washington county, Pa. In 1827 he founded an independent sect, which he called " The Disciples of Christ." The members of this sect are now known as the Campbellites. In 1840-41 he founded an institution called Bethany College and be-came its first president. The Disciples of Christ held that the Church of Christ was intended to be one and undivided; that its lost unity might be regained by a return to the Gospel in its original purity; that all the theological terms and doctrines of the schools must be abandoned and replaced by the original words, phrases, and ordinances of Holy Scripture; and that baptism should be by immersion. The officers of the local churches are elders and deacons. See Harper‘s Encycl. of U.S. Hist., 1902. citations: Encyc. of Rel., Canney
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