"In 1809 Smith could write, In Edgecome, Calvinism is law . . .67 but twenty years later in 1829, Noah Porter wrote to Lyman Beecher,You know as well as I, but, if I am not mistaken, thirty years ago, ten sermons were preached in New England on total depravity and election to one that is preached on those subjects now.68 At this time, especially the latter half of the third decade, the preachers" . . . .