Dick's scientific works were among the books thus read.
There were many Lutherans, Dutch Reformers, and Mennonites near Wadsworth, and there was a perfect ferment of religious discussion.
During father's boyhood, Alexander Campbell and Walter Scott had been preaching the union of Christians on the Bible alone, and there was great enthusiasm.
Eld.

Newcomb, an honored Baptist preacher, together with my grandfather, and Samuel Green--the father of Almon B.Green and Philander Green--had been reading the writings of A.Campbell for several years.

Almon B.
Green had been made skeptical by the unintelligible orthodox preaching.
But one day, after reading the first four books of the New Testament, he exclaimed, "No uninspired man ever wrote that book." He read on until he came to Acts ii.

38, which he took to Eld.

Newcomb, asking him its meaning.