Calvinism a life-system - pagina 203

CALVINISM AND ART.

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when, having reached the years of maturity, they stand before

you,

man and woman, you

as

with forms, and liarly their

and modes of expression, pecu-

traits,

And

own.

them both

see

so, arrived at their highest de-

velopment, both Religion and Art demand an independent

and the two stems which

existence,

intertwined

and seemed

now appear

to spring

the process from

is

Ahohab

to Christ,

And, by

their

own.

6th century than

Romanism

This

from Bezaleel and

virtue of that

Calvinism occupies a higher standpoint

process, 1

from a root of

Aaron

to the Apostles.

were

at first

belong to the same plant,

to

same

in the

Consequently

could reach.

Calvinism was neither able, nor even permitted, to develop an art-style of

To have done lower

a

nobler

own from

its

religious principle.

would have been to

this

of

level

its

religious

On

life.

slide

back to

the contrary,

must be to release religion and divine more and more from its sensual form and to

effort

v/orship

encourage

its

vigorous spirituality.

This

it

was enabled

do because of the powerful pulsebeat by which

to

that time the religious

And

of mankind.* vinistic

its

at

coursed through' the arteries

life

the fact that in these days, our Cal-

churches are deemed cold and unheiviisJi, and a

reintroduction of the symbolical in our places of worship is

longed

for,

we owe

beat of the religious

than

it

was

in

life

life

ing

in

our times

so

level of religion,

Holy

much

fainter

But so

far

this the right ot redescending to this faintness of the religious

ought to inspire the prayer of the

is

the days of our martyrs.

from borrowing from

a lower

to the sad reality that the pulse-

Spirit.

for a mightier

Second childhood,

inworkin

your

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