secularist-progressive creed. Noting how human culture seemed to progress in bursts and spurts after periods of stagnation, the Scottish minister James Burns observed: Progress, we see, occurs through revival. Any progress is like the incoming tide. Each wave is a revival, going forward, receding, and being followed by another. To the onlooker, it seems as if nothing is gained, but the force behind the ebb and flow is the power of the tide. So it is with nations. One will rise