...h its introductory (1851), and in (1856). For the old revivals, with their sudden superemotional conversions, he also substituted the concept of a gradual education in Christianity; (1847), like Jacob Abbott 's (1832), directs the attention of those who would be of the faith toward the possibility of growing in it by a process open to all mankind, the process of training. In his attitude toward the abo...