Calvinism - pagina 236

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

232 in

our social circles

placed

beneath Church

purety it

;

and and

to this manifold effect State, beneath society

and home-circle a fundamental philosophic conception, from

derived

strictly

therefore

This

all

of

dominating

its

and

principle,

own.

its

every

excludes

itself

of imitative re-

idea

and what the descendants of the old Dutch

pristination,

Calvinists as well as of the Pilgrim fathers have to do,

not to copy the past, as

is

if

Calvinism were a petre-

but to go back to the living root of the Calvinist

fact,

plant,

to

bud and

and

clean to

life

these

in

demands of the times

the

it,

and so

blossom once more, now

our actual

with

to water

to cause

fully in

modern

to

accordance

times,

and with

to come.

This explains the subject of

my

A

final lecture.

Calvinistic development needed by the ivants

The prospect

it

nezv

of the ftUiire.

of this future does not present itself to us,

as every student of sociology will acknowledge, in bright

colours.

I

would not go so

far as to assert that

we are on

the eve of universal social bankruptcy, but that the signs

To

of the times are ominous admits of no denial. sure,

in

the control of nature and her forces,

gains are being registered year

imagination

power

in

is

unable

to

foretell

this respect the race

half century.

As

to

and the boldest

what heights of

ma}- attain in the next life

World-intercourse and communication

increasing.

are

constantly becoming

more rapid and widespread.

until recently

dormant, gradually

themselves drawn into the larger

Aided by

year,

immense

a result of this, the comforts of

are

Asia and Africa,

by

be

circle of stirring

sport, the principles of hygiene exert a

feel life.

grow-

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