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121. THE SCHISM IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 73 tion to formulas and on presbyterial authority. Yet inconsistently they resisted compliance with the rule of the synod requiring examination of candidates for the ministry upon their gracious experiences, and they were culpably lenient in their treatment of grave moral offenses. ' Another cause of intense partisanship was in the character of the people. Scattered among the immigrants were those who clung defiantly to Cameronia ^ principles. Others s...ympathized as hotly with the Seced- ers of Scotland. The Scotch and Scotch-Irish in their numerous revivals have been peculiarly susceptible to unrestrained emotionalism, with its attendant phenomena.^ At the same time the rigid formalists were hostile to the cultivation of the subjective side of religion. Extremes therefore met not only among the ministers of the presbytery but among the people. Feeling ran high on account of the trials of Creaghead and Alexander. The supporters of the revival in several of the churches presided over by ministers bitterly antagonistic to it petitioned the pres- bytery of New Brunswick at the close of May to send supplies to them.
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