Calvinism a life-system - pagina 270

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

266

you owe But,

lo

and while even

of Calvinism,

fruits

and to Calvinism

Calvinism

to

this

alone.

and behold, while you are thus enjoying the of your

outside

borders the constitutional system of government as an

out-come of Calvinistic honour,

accounted

one

upholds the national

warfare,

whispered abroad that

it is

Humanism, and them the

of

blessings

these are to be

all

any

scarcely

thinks of honouring in

still

after-effect

of

Calvinism, the latter being believed to lead a lingering life

I

only

few dogmatically petrified

in a

demand

and demand with an

then,

circles,

f

What

historic right,

is

come

to

I

that this ungrateful ignoring of Calvinism shall \

end

an

where

attention

receive

the

the influence

that

;

actual

wholly

different

current

of

spirit

such

and

this side of the water,

should oppose with might and main

side,

falsification

where men of a

that,

would unobservedly divert the

you on

pantheistic channels,

we on our

and

French- revolutionary or German-

into

life

remains stamped upon

still

it

of to-day;

life

has exerted shall again

it

of the historic principles of our

That we may be enabled

to

do

contend

so, I

life.

in the

second place for an historical study of the principles of

No

Calvinism.

love without knowledge; and Calvinism

I

has

lost

its

place

in

the hearts of the people.

It is

being advocated only from a theological point of view,

and even then very one-sidedly and merely issue.

The

vious

lecture.

cause of this Since

The

of

tree

its

have pointed out

Calvinism

abstract system, but from

century

I

life

arose,

itself,

it

not

as a sidein a pre-

from

an

never was in the

prime presented as a systematic whole.

blossomed and yielded

its

fruit,

but without

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