John Campbell (19th-century minister)

[5] Thomson was a minister at Coldstream, supported in extended campaigning against the monopoly by Joseph Hume and John Filby Childs the Bungay printer.

[5] Campbell was his ally, on the issue of making Bibles cheaper;[6] after a brief period of criticism directed at supporters of the English monopoly, he desisted.

[5] In May 1846 Campbell agreed to support the London Reception Speech for Frederick Douglass, the escaped enslaved American, held at Finsbury Chapel by Alexander Fletcher.

Called on to provide the "Reply", he said: Frederick Douglass, the 'beast of burden', 'the portion of goods and chattels', the representative of three millions of men, has been raised up!

[1] The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain comments on the power of the press during the 1850s, and "spiritual clout", and the relationship to "denominations with central institutions".

It uses Campbell, whose major publications then all had circulations of the order of 100,000, as an example, with his "triggering of feuds over alleged 'German error' in Congregational pulpits and colleges.

[1] While The Record of Alexander Haldane saw Campbell as a staunch traditionalist, the point at issue was that many other Congregationalists responded strongly to Romantic poetry.

[12] James Grant in the Morning Advertiser attacked Lynch's hymn collection The Rivulet, as doctrinally null; and Campbell followed up in the British Banner, calling it "the most unspiritual publication of the kind in the English language.

[16] James Baldwin Brown published The Way of Peace for the Congregational Union (1857), and found his liberal theology led him subsequently out of Calvinism.

[1] Shortly afterwards Thomas Charles Turberville (died 1871) was brought to London from Birmingham to edit The Patriot, British Banner and the English Independent.