[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.]