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CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

48

new sanctuary has been promised all

No

led to nothing.

No

And

us.

yet

has

it

tangible effect has been produced.

formative principle has emerged from the imbroglio

Not even the beginning of an

of hypotheses.

movement

for j)lant has not soil.

— Now,

and the long looked

yet perceptible,

as

is

even

lifted

its

associative

head above the barren

in contraposition to this,

look at the giant

of Calvin, who, in the sixteenth century, with one

spirit

master-stroke, placed before the gaze of the astonished

world an entire religious

edifice,

erected in the purest

So rapidly was the whole building completed that most of the spectators forgot to pay

Scriptural

style.

attention to the wonderful structure of the foundations.

In

that

all

say

not

the

modern thought

religious

with a master hand, but heaped

as

created,

together, like an unsuccessful amateur,

one family,

not

Augustine's

has, I will

one nation,

one solitary soul has

hardly ever

words),

— not

found

(to

the requiescat for his

"broken heart," while the Reformer of Geneva,by

mighty then,

spiritual energy,

unto

five nations at once,

in Hfe, the uplifting of the heart

of Spirits, and holy peace, for ever. to the question

tion,

—

fested

first

in

fruit of

First,

— what

Allow me

energy.'*

his

both

after the lapse of three centuries, has afforded

and

guidance

use

in

the

to

unto the Father

This naturally leads

was the secret of

this

wonderful

present the answer to this ques-

Religion as such, next in religion as mani-

Life

of the

Church, and lastly in the

Religion for Practical Life.

then,

we

must

consider

Religion

as

such.

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