Calvinism a life-system - pagina 48

CALVINISM A LIFE SV^STEM.

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half of this century to the struggle of the Netherlands

against Spain,

one of the

as

only explains

gation,

finest subjects of investi-

by the conviction, that if time had not been broken

itself

the power of Spain at that

by the heroism of the Calvinistic spirit, the history of the Netherlands, of Europe and of the world would have

A

been

sad and dark

painfully

as

f/^^

Calvinism,

f^

justly

to

bright and inspiriting. Professor Fruin

is

it

thanks

now,

as

remarks that:if'In Switzerland,

in France, in the

Netherlands, in Scotland and in England, and wherever

Protestantism has had to establish the sword, Call

it

mind that

to

the point of

itself 'at

was Calvinism that gained the day." this

turn in the history of the

world could not have been brought about except by the implanting of another principle

by the

human mind the

;

found

liberty

that its

that

lips;

heart,

and

by [Calvinism the psalm of

only

way from

the troubled conscience to

Calvinism has captured and guaranteed

to us our constitutional civil rights;

eously with this that

human

in the

of another world of thought to the

disclosing

and that simultan-

there went out from Western Europe

mighty movement which promoted the revival of

science

and

art,

beautified

trade,

opened new avenues to commerce and

and

domestic

social

exalted the

life,

middle classes to positions of honor, caused philanthropy to

and

and more than

abound,

ennobled

and then judge banish archives

dream

moral for

any longer of to

history,

conceive

life

all this,

by

yourselves this

whether

seriousness; it

will

it

is

so

do to

to

the

much

of a

Calvinism

God-given

and whether that

elevated, purified

puritanic

Calvinism has yet a blessing

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