The fountains of the great deep were broken up, and men broke loose from the dominion of these old and man-made systems.

John Smith took the lead, and was followed by old Jacob Creath, Samuel Rogers, John Rogers, John Allen Gano, P.S.

Fall, and many others.Alex.Campbell once said: If any man can read the Acts of Apostles through three times, chapter by chapter, pondering each chapter as he reads, and then can remain an advocate of these old systems of conversion, may the Lord have mercy on him! But the old Baptists fiercely resisted the Reformers, and cast them out as heathen men and publicans.

And now the Bible was a new revelation to the men that came into this movement.

The veil was taken off their eyes, and they could read the Scriptures as they had never read them before.
They could now see that the Bible was a simple and intelligible volume, written to be understood by the common people, and they were only amazed at their former blindness.