The Christian Baptist Author:Alexander Campbell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1828 Original Publisher: A. Campbell Subjects: Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Christianity / Baptist Religion / Christian Church / History Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustratio... more »ns and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: , Miss. May 29, 1827. TO THE EDITOR OF THE cHRISTIAN BAPTIST. Tíear Sir, OX reading your essay in one of the late numbers of the Chrittian Baptist, on the "purity of speech," or being cast into the mould of the New Testament, or Covenant, my mind was involuntary led to the following train of reflections, which I have concluded to pen down and transmit to you for publication, if you think them wortby of insertion. The subject of my meditations was the first idolatry, or image worship, the worshipping of the molten calf as gods, a particular account of which may be read in Ex. xxxii. The Israetites said to Aiirou while Moses was upon the Mount receiving the law, "Up, make ua pods which shall go before us,"« less