Some fifteen years ago a few of our more advanced men gradually commenced opening up to our benighted minds, the fact, that A. Campbell was not the great man we had thought he was; that he was not the scholar we had thought; that some of his chief ideas were erroneous, and that we should have much trouble in _undoing_ what he had _done wrong_. We were growing up many young men, and being illiterate and unlearned, we knew not but we had over estimated A. Campbell, and that some mighty men were rising among us, that would throw him in the shade. But we had one comfort all the time, and that was that we were not alone in the opinion that A. Campbell was a man of superior learning and parts. We noticed that he attracted the fire of the great guns of the infidels, the Universalists, the Roman Catholics, the Methodists, the Presbyterians, and sectarians in general. He attracted the attention of the great men of Christendom, distinguished the hills of Bethany, and gave them a name that will extend down to the end of the ages. No man on this continent called forth anything like the same amount of attention he did, for the space of forty years. It was not a mere fortuity that gave him notoriety, but sound learning, correct and abundant information, persistent and determined work, with a fixed and settled purpose, to which he addressed the energies of his life. He was a mighty man in the highest sense, and to this the impression he made on the people of this great country, will testify till the Lord shall come. We have been amused with two classes of men among us. Those of one class were adjusting themselves for the mantle of A. Campbell to fall on them when he would depart. Had that mantle fallen on one of them, he would have appeared like a boy with his father’s great coat on—it would have fit nowhere. The other class are finding his errors and going beyond him. But it is remarkable, that in almost every instance, these _advanced_ men prove to be wrong themselves. Instead of their discovering some _new truth_, they resurrect some _old error_. We do not think it is advancing very far ahead of A. Campbell to resuscitate the Romish and Restorationist idea of an obscure Scripture. We frequently think of the man’s invention, that claimed that he could grow sheep _without wool_—it is more curious than profitable.