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History of the Restoration Movement
Biographical Sketch On The Life Of Barton W. Stone
Barton W. Stone was born in Maryland, December 24, At the time of his birth the religious world was in a state of confusion. Chaotic conditions prevailed among the different denominations as well as in the midst of each denomination. Mr. Stone received the impressions of the prevailing religious customs early in his youth. After a peculiar religious experience, he joined the Presbyterian Church.
He had grave doubts about some of the points of doctrine of the Presbyterian Church. Before he joined this church he had a long conversation with two Presbyterian ministers, relating to them the state of his mind on some points which disturbed him. These ministers wished to retain so promising a young man for the Presbyterian Church. They asked him how far he would be willing to subscribe to the Confession. He replied: 'As far as it is consistent with the word of God.' This showed his great respect, even while he was in the wilderness of confusion, for the word of God. When he was ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian Church, he gave the same answer to the presbytery-that he would subscribe to the Confession only so far as it was consistent with the word of God. His answer to those
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From: Foster, Blowers, Dunnavant, Williams, The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement, (Eerdmans Press, ), p. and Cummins, The Disciples: A Struggle for Reformation (St. Louis: Chalice Press),
Soon after Methodists James O’Kelly and Rice Haggard and Baptists Elias Smith and Abner Jones were inspired by the spirit of liberty to begin movements in the East to unite and restore the Church to its primitive New Testament roots, Presbyterian Barton Warren Stone () began to lead a similar movement in the West. Stone, whose movement began out of the southern revivalism late eighteen and early nineteen century, is recognized as one of the founding fathers of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Preparing to be a lawyer at North Carolina’s very first college known as the Guilford Academy or David Caldwell&#;s Log College, Stone was influenced by fellow students, among them James McGready, who were preparing to be pastors. It was this influence, and a sermon on God’s love by William Hodge, that precipitated his conversion experience and his call to ministry. Because he was raised as a Presbyterian, Stone joined the Presbyterian Church.
Stone was a progressive, open-minded, free thinker who was not afraid to question tradition. If the tradition, whether i
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1. Introduction
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