Calvinism a life-system - pagina 269

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

more than one of your

of

265

constitutions, while taking a

decidedly democratic view, nevertheless not the atheistic

standpoint of the French revolution, but the Calvinistic confession of the supreme sovereignty of God, has been

made

the foundation, at times even in terms, as

pointed

out,

corresponding

Not a

of Calvin.

trace

literally

with

to be found

is

I

have

words

the

among you

of

cynic anti-clericalism which has become identified

that

with the very essence of the revolutionary democracy,

And when

France and elsewhere.

in

proclaims

a

day

national

Congress

your President

of thanksgiving

or

when

Washington,

the

houses

of

are

opened

with prayer, it is ever new evidence American democracy there runs even yet

that through

a

veifi,

in

which, having sprung from the Pilgrim Fathers,

exerts

still

assembled

its

power

at the present day.

common-school system, inasmuch

as

it

is

Even your blessed with

reading of Scripture and opening prayer, points, though

with

decreasing distinctness,

to like Calvinistic origin.

Similarly in the rise of your university education, sprin-

ging the

for

and autonomous character

decentralized

local

governments;

in

Sabbath- observance; held

part from individual initiative; in

the larger

among

your

in

strict

of

your

and yet not nomistic

the esteem in which

woman

is

you, without falling into the Parisian deific-

ation of her sex

;

in

your sense

for domesticity

;

in the

closeness of your family ties; in your championship of free

speech and

of conscience; in

direct

revolution;

in

in all this

opposition

and

your unlimited regard

to

for

freedom

your Christian democracy the

is

democracy of the French

historically also

it

is

demonstrable that

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