When Mr. Campbell had concluded, opportunity was given for free expression of views, whereupon Andrew Munro, a shrewd Scotch Seceder, arose and said: “Mr. Campbell, if we adopt that as a basis, then there is an end of infant baptism.” This remark and the manifest conviction that it carried with it, produced a great sensation, for the whole audience was composed of pedobaptists who cherish infant baptism as one of their cardinal doctrines. “Of course,” said Mr. Campbell, in reply, “if infant baptism is not found in Scripture we can have nothing to do with it.” This bold declaration came like a new revelation to the audience. Thomas Acheson, one of Mr. Campbell’s closest friends, in a very excited manner arose and said: “I hope I may never see the day when my heart will renounce that blessed saying of the Scripture, ‘Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven!’” Upon saying this he burst into tears, and was about to retire to the adjoining room when James Foster, well informed in the Scriptures, called out, “Mr. Acheson, I would remark that in the portion of Scripture you have quoted there is no reference to infant baptism.” Without offering a reply Mr. Acheson passed into the adjoining room to weep alone. This new turn of things, so unexpected to them, did not lessen their confidence in the position they had taken, or in the man who was leading them onward. At the end of the conference the great principle was adopted without any real opposition. It would have been difficult for them to object to a profession so manifestly loyal to God and so impregnably founded in the Holy Scriptures. The principle, so universal in its application, and its controlling authority in all things that concern the faith and practice of the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, became henceforth the watchword and directive law of action of those endeavoring to restore apostolic Christianity. Some of those who started out in this great movement, when they saw more clearly the inevitable, logical result of the great principle now adopted, one after another broke off all connection with this work.