Communings in the Sanctuaryby C. Leonard Allen & Robert Richardson Description Dr. Robert Richardson, medical doctor, professor, and biographer of Alexander Campbell, was the foremost advocate of the Spiritual life in the 19th century Stone Campbell movement. Nowhere is his vision of that life more powerful and eloquent than in the many communion meditations he delivered to the Bethany Church of Christ in the 1840s and 50s. J. W. McGarvey was a student at Bethany College in