Volume 48:3 contained a major error. In James Maverick Cook, “Identity and Nostalgia among the Campbellites,” the following paragraph appeared incomplete. The missing words that should have appeared at the bottom of page 136 are in bold print:

    After Dr. Barclay returned from Jerusalem with his tales of woe, the ACMS decided to take an optimistic view of the situation. Accepting at least temporary defeat in Jerusalem, they turned to Liberia, which had just declared its independence. The idea was to preach among the freed blacks, some of whom had migrated from the United States. Strangely enough, little patriotism or blatant nationalism was involved in this mission attempt since the United States was one of the few significant powers at this point not to recognize Liberian independence.²⁰ A slave named Alexander Cross, who had converted to the Campbellite cause, was bought from his master and trained for the Liberian venture. Unfortunately, Cross died soon after arriving in Liberia, and what might have happened evangelically or politically was lost. The Liberian mission effort was abandoned. Subsequently, not much was written about it. The ACMS moved on to other things.

    ²⁰Winfred Ernest Garrison, An American Religious Movement: A Brief History of the Disciples of Christ (St. Louis: Bethany Press, 1945), 111.

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