ty of his brother ministers to-day will condemn[11] the bold,
brave man whom his communion in the near future will revere as a man
who, prophet-like, saw beyond the sect to which he belonged; whose
noble, loving, and holy nature drew him into intimate relationship
with the Divine life, which is the essence of Love.

[11] Since writing the above the Assembly at Detroit has
voted against the confirmation of Dr. Briggs by 440
against 59; thus, from a numerical point of view, Dr.
Briggs is in the minority. This is by no means
surprising, and I regard it greatly to the credit of
the Assembly that, while they hold to the severe
doctrines popularly known as Calvinism, they repudiate
all the great liberal scholars who refuse to believe
and teach conceptions of God which were unquestioningly
accepted in a former age, but which the enlightenment
of the present century shrinks from with unutterable
horror. Unless Dr. Briggs proves a dishonest man and
recants he must leave Union Theological Seminary, if
that institution remains in the Presbyterian
fellowship.

[Transcriber's Note: A macron diacritical mark, a straight line above
a letter, is found on several words in the original text. These letters
are indicated here by the coding [=x] for a macron above any letter x.
For example, the word "aionios" with a macron above the first letter
"o" will appear as "ai[=o]nios" in the text.]

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