ving spirit, but the others heartily concurred.
The articles of faith were as follows:

"1. We believe in the existence of One Ever-living and True God,
Sovereign and Unchangeable, Infinite in Power, Wisdom and Goodness.

"2. We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be
inspired of God; to contain a revelation of His will, and to be the
authoritative rule of faith and practice.

"3. We believe that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost are
revealed in the Scriptures as existing, in respect to attributes,
character and office, as three Persons, equally Divine; while in
other respects they are united, and are, in a proper sense, One
God.

"4. We believe that our First Parents were created upright; that
they fell from their original state by disobedience, and that all
their posterity are not only prone to sin, but do become sinful and
guilty before God.

"5. We believe that God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son to die for it; that Christ appeared in the flesh; that
He set forth a perfect example of obedience; that He purely taught
the truths needful for our salvation; that He suffered in our
stead, the just for the unjust; that He died to atone for our sins,
and to purify us therefrom; and that He rose from the dead and
ascended into heaven, where He ever liveth to make intercession for
us.

"6. We believe that God offers full forgiveness and everlasting
life to all who will heartily repent and believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ; while those who do not believe, but persevere in sin, shall
finally perish.

"7. We believe in the resurrection of all the dead; in a final and
general judgment, upon the awards of which the wicked shall go into
everlasting punishment and the righteous into life eternal."

These were adopted by the church as they stand on April 17, 1848, by a
rising vote. They represent the platform on which Mr. Beecher accepted
the pastorate of the church, and have remained essentially the doctrinal
basis of the church under the pastorates of Dr. Abbott and Dr. Hillis.

It will readily be seen that in general the position of Plymouth Church
was essentially that of the New England churches, and when, after being
trained in orthodox Windsor, Conn., I came to Brooklyn, I found myself
in much the same atmosphere. At the same tim