aded, the
congregation was taken by storm. Like most men whose invective powers
are strong, the Doctor can flatter, and he did so with a vengeance. The
model church was the church which took in the most of the Doctor's
publications. The successful minister was the minister who sold the most
of them. The people of whom the Doctor had hopes were the people who
subscribed 4s. 4d. per quarter to Bolt Court.

But the Doctor can bear no rival; he must reign supreme. John Childs, of
Bungay, and Dr. Adam Thomson, of Coldstream, destroyed the Bible
monopoly; but Dr. Campbell had the command of the press, and took the
credit to himself. An eminent publisher started a newspaper and a
religious magazine, and the Doctor looked coldly on him till he sold the
newspaper and gave up the magazine. When the 'Anti-State-Church Society'
was formed, the Doctor was one of its members, but it had a ruling spirit
who was not the pastor of the Tabernacle, and the Doctor's zeal soon died
away. The Doctor also professes to be with the Teetotalers; but they
don't all go to Bolt Court, and the Doctor damns them with faint praise.
If the Congregationalists grow restive, it matters little; they have no
chance against him; they have been delivered over to the Doctor, body and
soul. It is in vain they struggle to be free. Will the Doctor publish
what would militate against himself? Will the Doctor withhold from
publishing when it gives him the chance of an easy triumph? Of course, a
man is a fool to enter into a controversy with a newspaper editor. The
editor is omnipotent; you must give in. If it is folly to kick against
the pricks, it is the height of folly to encounter the editor of a
newspaper. Hence the Doctor's triumphs have been easy; but they have
been due more to the weakness of his foes than to any strength of his
own.

As to the utter weakness of the Doctor in execution, let us turn to the
'British Banner.' A man may be heavy, rambling, in the pulpit; but with
his pen he may be quite the reverse. The 'Banner,' when under the
Doctor's care, was a failure. That was to have been a paper to
Christianize the world; to win over the discontented infidelity and
chartism of our age; to pervade the land with a living Christian faith:
for this, Doctor Campbell had a support such as was never given to man
before. The Doctor told us that there was an infidel press; that that
infidel press circulated by tens of thousands; and that it be