Although Mr. Scott was pleased with the initial success, it was still a mystery to him why his first discourse had failed to convince any one, and that at the close of the second, Mr. Amend, who had heard neither of them, should come forward so intelligently; hence he wrote a letter requesting him to state the facts which induced him to respond to the invitation so promptly, to which he replied: Now, my brother, I will answer your questions. I was baptized November 18, 1827, and I will relate to you a circumstance which occurred a few days before that date. I had read the second chapter of Acts when I expressed myself to my wife as follows: “Oh, this is the gospel—this is the thing we wish—remission of our sins! Oh, that I could hear the gospel in these same words—as Peter preached it! I hope I shall some day hear it; and the first man I meet who will preach the gospel thus, with him will I go.” So, my brother, on the day you saw me come into the meeting-house, my heart was open to receive the Word of God, and when you cried, “The scriptures no longer shall be a sealed book. God means what he says. Is there any man who will take God at his word, and be baptized for the remission of sins?” at that moment my feelings were such that I could have cried out, “Glory to God! I have found the man for whom I have long sought.” So I entered the kingdom where I readily laid hold of the hope set before me. (Life of Walter Scott, page 113.) Within three weeks after the close of the meeting at New Lisbon, Mr. Scott returned and found the interest there greater than when he left, and seven others were baptized. Soon after this he visited there again, and baptized more than thirty others. The members of the Baptist Church gladly accepted the truth, and resolved that thenceforth the Bible should be their only rule of faith and practice.