eaking evil of things which they know not.

_Item._ Finally we _will_, that all our _sister bodies_ read their
Bibles carefully, that they may see their fate there determined, and
prepare for death before it is too late.

Springfield Presbytery, }
June 28th, 1804. } L. S.

ROBERT MARSHALL, }
JOHN DUNLAVY, }
RICHARD MCNEMAR, }
B. W. STONE, } Witnesses.
JOHN THOMPSON, }
DAVID PURVIANCE, }

There seemed to be throughout the United States at about this time a
growing realization among Christian people of the fact that the one
essential principle of Protestant Christianity--belief in and
acceptance of Jesus as Redeemer and Christ--was already held in common
by all evangelical denominations. Hence, soon after this there began in
widely separated parts of the country various other movements similar
in aim and method to that inaugurated in Kentucky by the dissolution of
the Springfield Presbytery.

It is only needed that these various movements become known to each
other in order to become united. This union was effected in 1882; and
rapidly crystalized into a body whose only distinguishing name is
"Christian" or "Disciple," and whose differential character lies not in
its advocacy of any new doctrine or theological tenet whatever; but in
its rejection of that which in the way of human speculation, human
interpretation and human dogma has been added to the original simple
and all-comprehending faith of the apostolic church.

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