Henry Halley’s autobiography<\/a>, he became a minister for the Disciples of Christ in 1898. The Disciples of Christ split off from the churches of Christ in the late 1800s, so they held similar beliefs but differed enough that they went different ways. The split with the Christian Church occurred at the same time. The Disciples were the ultra-liberal branch. The Christian Church took the populous and mildly liberal direction. The churches of Christ stuck with the conservative approach.<\/p>\nI don’t know how you concluded that he agreed with the beliefs of the popes or sectarian churches. I glanced through the section on church history at the back, and it was clear that he saw Catholicism as straying from the truth.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: Good day. I was reading\u00a0your excellent article on Alexander Campbell. Good job. I have a question? Was Dr. Henry Halley of the famous\u00a0Halley’s Bible Handbook\u00a0ever associated with the churches of Christ? I read where he was once a student of J. W. McGarvey. 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