Tyler and " Omicron " and the protests of " The
Christian Observer " to see the guK that was open-
ing before it. The bequeathed contention of Ed-
wards had already more than half yielded to Armin-
ianism and modern thought. What would foUow,
no man knew. Relief was needed at four points :
first, from a revivalism that ignored the law of
Christian growth; second, from a conception of
the trinity bordering on tritheism ; third, from a
view of miracles that implied a suspension of natu-
ral law ; and fourth, from a theory of the atone-
ment that had grown almost shadowy under " im-
provements," yet still failed to declare the law of
human life.
The time had also come when a rational, scien-
tifi^c, cause-and-effect habit of thought was im-
peratively required, not only on these four points,
but in the whole reahn of theology. But the doc-
triaes, even as they were held, were not to be cast
out and trodden under foot. They sprang out of

of charity which comhines the truth of both. Nor would we
intimate that other writers in each denomination have not, from
their own standpoint, done much by concession and mutual recog-
nition of each other's strength, to heal a schism which Bishop
Phillips Brooks said would not have happened if modem exegesis
had existed in the early part of the century.
388 HORACE BUSHNELL

great and nourishiag truths, the germs of which
still lay within them. Bushnell undertook to rein-
terpret these doctrines, and to restate them in the
terms of Ufe itself ; to find their ground in nature
and revelation, and ia the processes of the human
spirit.
