" Grod in Christ " did not defend historic ortho-
doxy, nor did it place the doctrine of the Trinity
where it stands to-day, but it served the purpose
of a diversion against the charges of tritheism,
and it checked the recasting of church creeds
into tritheistic terms, — a measure that had been
adopted to stop the growing heresy.^

^ It is hardly necessary to say that each Congregational Chnrch
makes its own cieed, and adopts it hy a majority vote of its male



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The next point at which Bushnell brought sen-
sible relief to the thought of his day was that of
miracles, or the supernatural.
