Calvinism - pagina 277

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE. and gaining day by day?

Do

not forget that the fun-

damental contrast has always been, until the end:

Christianity

So

the living God.

the

drastic

still,

is

and

and Paganism, the

far there

is

a deeply

felt

idols or

truth in

future

but Christ has

;

prophesied to us on Patmos the approach of a

in

than

less

fear

for

from

the

cunning

family.

Chinese soldiers,

Taipings,

the

most splendid

if

Asiatic question

its

Europe

in store for us

forming so large a

And did not Gordon with whom he defeated

is

most serious import.

fact of

in

final

rise in Asia,

its

solution

and material development,

The The

he ever commanded?

soldiers

problem of the world took find

filled

only well drilled and officered, made

the

will

race"

'•'yellow

human

proportion of the

it

has

years

forty

what calamity might be

with

testify that his

and

last

and even now Japan's gigantic deve-

conflict,

lopment

be

drawn by the German Emperor, Buddhism as the coming enemy. A

drawn curtain hides the

bloody

will

picture

representing closely

273

;

the

and

in

Asia

and, both in technical

has shown that

issue

heathen nations, as soon as they awake, and arise from their lethargy, rival us

Of

almost instantly.

course this danger would be far

case Christendom, in both the old

stood

united

around

praise to their King,

the

Cross,

and ready

less

menacing

in

and the new world, shouting

as in the

songs

of

days of the days

of the crusades to advance to the final conflict. But

how

when pagan thought, pagan aspirations, pagan ideals are gaining ground even among us and penetrating to the very heart ofthe rising generation? Have not the Armenians, just because the conception of Christian solidarity has become 18

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