Changing Course Eberhard spent most of August at an SCM conference in Werni gerode, where, to his surprise, he was nominated chairman of the meetings. Many students were converted at the conference, and Eberhard left encouraged, despite differences remaining within the movement over the issues of adult baptism and speaking in tongues. He returned to the University of Breslau at the beginning of September. Meanwhile, Emmy spent an uneventful month at home. The young couple met several times, both at a student conference in Blankenburg and in Halle, where the controversy over baptism was growing and causing a rift in the revival movement. Emmy was distressed by this: she felt all the talk threatened to displace Jesus. When in one letter she expressed her disquiet after an especially convinced proponent of adult baptism called her a corpse, since she had “died with Jesus, but not been buried and resurrected through baptism,” Eberhard responded, “Listen, my little bird, do you consider me a corpse? I don’t.” Not surprisingly, she was glad for the chance to move, at least temporarily, to nearby Brumby in order to help in the home of Pastor Hachtmann and his wife.