SCOTT, Walter, religious leader, born in Moffat, Dumfries-shire, Scotland, 31 October, 1796 ; died in Mays-lick, Kentucky, 23 April, 1861. He came of the same ancestry as the novelist. After an academic training he was graduated at the University of Edinburgh, and afterward sailed to the United States, where he arrived, 7 July, 1818. He pursued his studies and taught in New York and Pittsburg, and in the latter city in 1821 he formed an acquaintance with Thomas and Alexander Campbell, which soon became a lasting friendship. The three engaged in an earnest and critical examination of the Bible and of the earlier writers, by which they became convinced that the existing forms of Christianity were in wide departure from the simple discipline of the primitive church. In 1822 the Campbells and Scott had arrived at a harmonious agreement concerning a plan for the union of Christians; and, without desiring to form another sect, they endeavored to draw men together into the original denomination upon common grounds of orthodox religion. In pursuance of this plan, Alexander Campbell now began the publication of the "Christian Baptist," which obtained a large circulation. Scott wrote for this periodical, and at once took the pulpit and proceeded to point out what he considered the glaring defects in the modern man-her of preaching the gospel. His powers of oratory were remarkable, and he lived to see an organized ministry preaching to many followers those views of Christianity which had engaged all the faculties of his life. Scott was deeply concerned at the opening of the civil war, and published "The Union," a pamphlet in the interest of peace (Cincinnati, 1860). The illness of which he died was intensified by grief at hearing of the attack on Fort Sumter. His published works were "The Gospel Restored" (1854); and "The Messiahship, or the Great Demonstration" (1858), besides briefer contributions to the press explaining his religious views. His life has been written by William Baxter (1874).