Two modern statements of the doctrine of “election,” neither of
which would quite satisfy John Calvin or Jonathan Edwards, are
given in _The Congregationalist_.
One was Henry Ward Beecher’s epigrammatic and convincing phrase:
“The elect are whosoever will; the non-elect are whosoever
won’t.”
Good as this is, there is another explanation that is a star of
equal magnitude. It was made by a colored divine, who said:
“Brethren, it is this way. The Lord, He is always voting for a
man; and the devil, he is always voting against him. Then the
man himself votes, and that breaks the tie.” (Text.)
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