1868-1870 AUSTRALIAN CHRISTIAN PIONEER. Rare Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ Early Publication.

This bound volume containing the first two years (1868–1870) of The Australian Christian Pioneer is a foundational historical record of the Restoration Movement (Churches of Christ) in Australasia. Edited in Adelaide by early American evangelists T. J. Gore, H. S. Earl, and G. L. Surber, the journal served as the central organ for unifying, defining, and expanding the movement throughout Australia and New Zealand during its formative years. Its contents capture rare primary-source accounts of early missionary growth, theological debates over baptism, election, and creeds, and the practical establishment of local congregations and social initiatives, making it a key archival artifact of 19th-century Australian religious history.

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Gore, T. J., H. S. Earl, and G. L. Surber [Eds]. The Australian Christian Pioneer. Devoted to Primitive Christianity. Volume I. 1868-1869. Adelaide [Australia]. Printed and Published by David Gall. 1869. 240pp.

Contents include: The Purpose of the Australian Christian Pioneer; Mr. H. S. Earl's Visit to New Zealand [Series]; Last Address of Philip Santo Junior; Off for Australia by J. W. McGarvey; Pedobaptist Trouble; Monthly Updates on Expansion of the Church of Christ in Australia; The Northern Territory Resolutions [Northern Australia]; The South Australian Temperance Society; Infant Baptism; Predestination; The Great Proclamation; Concluding Remarks on my Visit to New Zealand; Letter to a Methodist Preacher; Baptism in Fire; The Blood of Christ; A Reply to the Rev. James Ballantyne's Tract on Baptism by Mr. O. A. Carr of Melbourne; South Australian Bible Translation and Revision Society; Do Not be Conformed to the World; Laying Foundation Stones of Chapels; etc. etc. 

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Gore, T. J., H. S. Earl, and G. L. Surber [Eds]. The Australian Christian Pioneer. Devoted to Primitive Christianity. Volume II. 1869-1870. Adelaide [Australia]. Printed by David Gall. Published by Samuel Frearson. 1870. 271pp.

Contents include: Regeneration; Law and Gospel; Baptism Subordinate to Preaching; The Rev. J. Ashton on Baptism; The Progress of Missions across Australia [Monthly]; Is it in the Power ofa ny Man to be One of the Elect of God?; Prayers for the Unconverted; How is Faith Produced?' Statistics of Progress of the Disciples of Christ in America; Feelings a Poor Test; Arguments and Apologies for the Evangelical Alliance Creed; We are not a Sect; Awake! Awake!; Conformity to the World; Christ Our Leader; The Church of Christ; Sects; What Shall We do with Baptism?; Immortality of the Soul; Letter from California [series by James W. Webb]; How to Enter the Church of Christ; On the Laying on of Hands; Letter from New Zealand; Eternal Punishment by O. A. Carr [Series]; John Milton an Immersionist?; An Old Disciple on Destructionism [Annihilationism]; The Study of the Word of God; The Personality of the Holy Spirit; etc. 

Two volumes complete, bound as one in rubbed half leather, some wear and material loss at extremities as shown, minor stains on foredges of textblock. Text itself generally very solid and clean.