Separating on this issue, they took the opportunity to amend the generally accepted doctrinal statements of the Presbyterian churches by mitigating those utterances which seemed to them, as they have seemed to many others, to err in the direction of fatalism.
About the same time there was manifested in various quarters a generous revolt against the existence and multiplication of mutually exclusive sects in the Christian family, each limited by humanly devised doctrinal articles and branded with partisan names.

How these various protesting elements came together on the sole basis of a common faith in Christ and a common acceptance of the divine authority of the Bible; how, not intending it, they came to be themselves a new sect; and how, struggling in vain against the inexorable laws of language, they came to be distinguished by names, as _Campbellite Baptist_, _Christ-ian_ (with a long _i_), and (+kat' exochen+) Disciples, are points on which interesting and instructive light is shed in the history by Dr.B.B.
Tyler.[242:1] * * * * * The great revival of the West and Southwest was not the only revival, and not even the earliest revival, of that time of crisis.

As early as 1792 the long inertia of the eastern churches began to be broken here and there by signs of growing earnestness and attentiveness to spiritual things.

There was little of excited agitation.

There was no preaching of famous evangelists.