The Christian (magazine) explained

The Christian has been the title of several magazines:

• The Christian magazine: or, Evangelical repository (fl. 1798)
• The Christian (1802–1822), a publication of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
• The Christian (1824–1827), of the Mendon Association of Congregational Ministers.^[1]
• The Christian (1840s–1974), a magazine of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). It was renamed The Disciple following a merger with the church's mission magazine World Call in 1974. The merged magazine started out as a bi-weekly, then became a monthly.^[2]

Notes and References

1. A centurial history of the Mendon association of Congregational Ministers. p154 Mortimer Blake - 1853 "He attended over one hundred and fifty ecclesiastical councils; and did a large part of the editing of the " Christian Magazine," during its four years' continuance; and was in all ministerial labors abundant."
2. The encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell movement p272 Douglas Allen Foster - 2004 "The Disciple was the fruit of a merger between the news and opinion journal The Christian and the mission magazine World Call in 1974. The magazine started out as a bi-weekly, then became a monthly early in its life.