Mr. Campbell read the fourth chapter of Galatians. After giving a general outline of the whole epistle, he took up the allegory of Sarah and Hagar, and in a simple, plain and artless manner, leaning with one hand on his cane, he delivered his discourse. “He seemed,” as Smith afterward remarked, “to move in a higher sphere or latitude than that in which the isms of the day abounded.” At the conclusion of the services Smith remarked to Mr. Vaughn, “Is it not hard, Bro. Vaughn, to ride twenty miles, as I have done, just to hear a man preach thirty minutes?” “You are mistaken,” said Mr. Vaughn; “look at your watch, for it certainly has been longer than that.” He looked at his watch, and, to his surprise, saw that the discourse had been two hours and a half long. On discovering this he said, “I have never been more deceived. Two hours of my life are gone, I know not how, though wide awake, too, all the time!” On being questioned as to whether he had ascertained whether he was a Calvinist or an Arminian, he replied: “No, I know nothing about the man; but be he saint or devil, he has thrown more light on that epistle, and on the whole Scripture, than I have received in all the sermons that I have ever heard before.” RESOLVES TO PREACH THE SIMPLE GOSPEL For several days he accompanied Mr. Campbell from place to place, an enraptured listener to every discourse, and earnestly engaged him in conversation as they traveled along the way or sat under some hospitable roof. At last his mind cast off its fetters. The way hitherto so clouded became plain, and he left the company of Mr. Campbell, resolved henceforth to devote his life to preaching the simple Gospel as exhibited in the New Testament. The step was, as he had anticipated, attended with great sacrifices. Old friends forsook him. He had always stood high among his preaching brethren, but now he was regarded with undisguised suspicion. Soon the storm gathered furiously about him. At the annual meeting of the association in which he held his membership charges were preferred against him, among the most serious of which was that, instead of the King James translation of the Scriptures, “he had on two or three occasions in public, and often in his family, read from Alexander Campbell’s translation.” Without being given an opportunity to defend himself, he was placed under censure, and given a year in which to correct his views and change his ways.