Walter Scott (clergyman)

[1]: 673 Walter was born to John and Mary Innes Scott in 1796 in the town of Moffatt, Scotland.

[1]: 673  The same year he went to New York City at the invitation of his maternal uncle, where he taught languages at a school on Long Island.

[1]: 673  He soon moved to Pittsburgh, where he was baptized by immersion and became an active member of a small congregation led by a fellow Scotsman named George Forrester.

[1]: 673  Forrester helped shape Walter's understanding of Christianity, and in particular his belief that immersion was the only appropriate form of baptism.

[1]: 674 Scott married Sarah Whitsette in 1823, and the family moved to Ohio in 1826[1]: 675  He began working with the Campbells in August of that year.

[1]: 675  As a journalist, he wrote about a wide range of topics, including church music, issues important to the Restoration Movement and also more general domestic and foreign news.

[3]: 338  He would ask them to hold up a hand, and then point to each finger and say "faith, repentance, baptism, remission of sins, gift of the Holy Spirit.