Isaac Errett

Isaac Errett

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Isaac Errett (January 2, 1820 – December 19, 1888) was an American preacher and editor whose calling from God within the Disciples of Christ shaped the Restoration Movement through powerful preaching and influential writing for over four decades. Born in New York City to Henry Errett, an Irish immigrant and elder in the early Disciples church, and a mother from Portsmouth, England, he grew up in a family converted by Alexander Campbell’s teachings. With limited formal education—learning largely from a bookstore job and an apprenticeship in a Pittsburgh printing office—he began preaching at age 20 in 1840, ordained that year by the Smithfield Street Church in Pittsburgh. Errett’s calling from God led him to pastorates in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; New Lisbon, Warren, and North Bloomfield, Ohio; Detroit, Muir, and Ionia, Michigan; and Chicago, Illinois, where his sermons emphasized returning to New Testament Christianity. In 1866, he founded the Christian Standard in Cleveland, later moving it to Cincinnati, serving as its editor until his death and making it a leading voice for the Disciples. He worked with Campbell on the Millennial Harbinger, served as corresponding secretary of the American Christian Missionary Society (1857–1860), and was the first president of the Foreign Christian Missionary Society (1875–1888). His writings, like Our Position (1870), clarified the movement’s stance on unity and faith. Married to Harriet Reeder in 1840, with whom he had several children, he passed away at age 68 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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