Such being, in few words, the actual state of the religious community, the present Reformation proposes an immediate return to the broad and original platform of Christianity, as well as of true Protestantism; and urges, accordingly, the claims of the Bible alone, as the source of Divine truth for all mankind; and pleads for the exercise of man's inalienable right to read and interpret the Sacred Volume. It seeks to establish a unity of faith,instead of that diversity of opinion which has distracted religious society; and to restore the gospel and its institutions, in all their original simplicity, to the world. In brief, its great purpose is to establish CHRISTIAN UNION upon the basis of a SIMPLE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY.

Robert Richardson, "Principles and Purposes of the Reformation: A Brief Account of the Principles and Purposes of the Religious Reformation urged by A. Campbell, and Others," The Millennial Harbinger 23 (October 1852): 577. Accessed at Memorial University's Restoration Movement Texts page.