Campbell, John (7)
Campbell, John
an Independent minister, was born at Edinburgh in March, 1766, and apprenticed to a goldsmith. About 1789, at which time he was actively engaged in measures for the extension of Sunday-schools, he began to prepare himself for the Christian ministry. He subsequently visited London to take charge of twenty-four young natives of Africa, who were brought from Sierra Leone to be instructed in’ Christianity, with a view to its introduction into their native land; and in 1804 he became pastor of the Independent Church in Kingsland, a charge which he retained until his death, April 4th, 1840. Mr. Campbell took an active part in the formation of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and several other important religious associations. In 1812 he made a journey to the stations of the London Missionary Society in South Africa, from which he returned in1814. Of this journey he published an account (1815, 8vo). In 1818-21 he revisited Africa, and found some interesting changes produced by the civilization introduced by the missionaries. The journal of his second visit appeared in 1822 (2 vols. 8vo). Mr. Campbell published numerous works, chiefly for the instruction of youth, and he was the founder, and for eighteen years the editor of the Youth’s Magazine, a religious periodical of great utility. Jamieson, Religious Biog. p. 100.
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Campbell, John (1)
a Scotch prelate, was made bishop of the see of Argyle June 1, 1608. He died in 1612. See Keith, Scottish Bishops, p. 290.
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Campbell, John (2)
a Congregational minister, was born in. the north of Scotland in 1690, and was educated ats the University of Edinburgh. He came to America. about 1717, and in 1720 became the pastor of the Church in Oxford, Mass., the ordination taking place March 11, 1721., He continued in that relation for more than forty years, and died March 25, 1761. Mr. Campbell was a man of more than ordinary abilities, acting not only as the pastor of his flock, but as their physician, and, when called upon, settling their disputes as a judge. He published A Treatise on Conversion, Truth,: Justification, etc. See Ammidown, Hist. Collection, i, 242; Allen, Amer. Biog. s.v. (J; C. S.)
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Campbell, John (3)
a Presbyterian minister, was born in Scotland in 1713, and came to America in 1734. Charleston and New Providence, N. J., petitioned New Brunswick Presbytery that, if he should be licensed, they might have his services. May 19,1747, Campbell was taken on trial, licensed Oct. 14, and ordained and installed over the above churches, Oct. 27. On May 1, 1753, he was struck with palsy in the pulpit, and died a week later. See Webster, Hist. of the Presb. Church in America, 1857.
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Campbell, John (4)
a Scotch Congregational minister, was the subject of religious impressions very early in life. In 1802 hue joined Mr. Haldane’s classes at Edinburgh. In 1806 he labored zealously for some months at Callander, Scotland.. He commenced his regular labors at Fort William in 1807. In 1811 he removed to Oban, and was ordained in August of the same year. He preached much in the surrounding districts. On July 3,1852, he was taken ill, and died Feb. 4,1853. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1854, p. 220.
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Campbell, John (5)
an Irish Wesleyan minister, was born in the County Down, Ireland. He was converted at the age of eighteen; entered the itinerancy in 1812; became a supernumerary at Magherafelt, his last circuit, in 1842; removed to Belfast in 1845; and died March 4,1851, aged sixty-six years. See Minutes of the. British Conference, 1851; Hill, Alh.: Arrangem. of Wesl. Meth. Ministers, 1846, p. 197.
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Campbell, John (7)
a Scotch Congregational minister, was born at Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, Jan. 15, 1828, of pious parents, who took him in his childhood to Manchester, Jamaica. He was converted there, and soon afterwards he joined the Church, devoted his life to spreading the Gospel tidings, entered Glasgow University, and, having completed his classical and theological courses, he was ordained pastor, in 1855, at Kilmarnock, where he died, March 28,1859. Mr. Campbell was most assiduous in his attentions to the sick, energetic in caring for the young, and laborious in his pulpit preparations. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1860, p. 179.