As a mnemonic, it is a plan of Christian salvation in the Stone-Campbell Movement, where the five fingers represent "faith, repentance, baptism, remission of sins, gift of the Holy Spirit". It was introduced by Walter Scott in the 1820s."Five Finger Exercise" in Anthony L. Dunnavant, D. Newell Williams, Douglas A. Foster, Paul M. Blowers, eds., The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement, 2004, , p. 338
