CAMPBELL, REV. JOHN, was born at Edinburgh in March 1766, and appienticed to a goldsmith And jeweller in his native city. About, 178P, at which time he was actively engaged in measures for the extension of Sunday-schools and itinerant preaching in the neglected districts near Edinburgh, he began to prepare himself fur the Christian ministry. He subsequently visited London, to take charge of twenty four young natives of Africa, who were brought from Sierra Leone to be instructed in Christianity, with n view to its introduction into their native land ; and in 1801 he became pastor of the Independent Church in Kingeland, a charge which he retained until his death, which took place on the 4th of April, 1840, at the age of seventy-four. Mr. Camp bell took an active part in the formation of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and several other important religions association,. In 1812 he made a journey to the stations of the London Missionary Society in Senth Africa, from which be returned in 1814. Of this
journey he in 1315 published an account in an octavo volume. Inc 1818-21 he revisited Africa, and found some interesting chaugee pro duced by the civilisation introduced by the missionaries. The journal of his second visit appeared in 1822, in two octavo volumes. Mr. Campbell published numerous works, chiefly for the instruction of youth, and he was the founder and for eighteen years the editor of the Youth's Magazine,' a religious periodical of great utility. In 1523 he established a penny monthly periodical entitled the ' Teacher's Offering,' the publication of which is still continued by the Religious Tract Society. He also prepared an abridgment of his ' Travels in South Africa,' and wrote several religious works for the young.