The Evangelist, Cincinnati, OH, 1841. These two statements were reprinted with additional editorial comments in the Jan. 1844 issue of Alexander Campbell's Millennial Harbinger, Bethany, VA, pp. A ccording to previous arrangements, the discussion of the points at issue between Presbyterians and those denominated Reformers, embraced in the following six propositions, commenced on the 15th November, at Lexington, Kentucky, in the presence of a very large and intelligent audience, amongst which, it was said, were some hundred and fifty preachers, of various denominations, a large proportion of which was of the reformation, assembled from various States, from New York to Louisiana, and from Philadelphia to Little Rock. The infant of a believing parent is a scriptural subject of baptism.
Christian baptism is for the remission of past sins.
In conversion and sanctification, the Spirit of God operates on persons only through the word of truth. Human creeds, as bonds of union and communion, are necessarily heretical and schismatical. Over this discussion, presided the Hon. Henry Clay, Chief Justice Robertson, and Col. John Speed Smith. Sometimes all, and always some, of these gentlemen were in attendance.