Calvinism - pagina 37

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM. and therefore of the equahty of

likeness,

God and

by

restrained

be honored

for our

men

before

relation to the

This

justifies

duly

answers

thus

is

of the world

life

independence, and that

is

to

we must,

in

the treasures and develop the

discover

God

hidden by

potencies

side of

grace, that the

in its

every domain,

and

And

all

the recognition that in the whole world the curse

ivorld: is

his magistrate.

33

and

in nature

human

in

life.

us fully in our statement that Calvinism

three above

the

named

incontestably entitled to take

conditions,

by the

stand

its

and

Paganism, Islamism, Romanism and Modernism, claim for

to

itself

the glory of possessing a well-

defined principle and an all-embracing life-system.

But even

this

circle

Calvinism

quite

its

secular social

has

all.

The

formed an

from which both

own,

domain a

life,

not

is

special

justifies its

fact that in a given

interpretation

stage in

has

its

not,

system arose for domestic and

claim to assert

itself as

that

In

China

it

a given

form of has

life

as

we have

which

itself

Confucianism in

far

position

claim for

led humanity, as such,

development, and therefore

so

life

the spiritual and

in

pendent formation; but does not yet credit

honour of having

of

it

up

with the

to a higher

this life-system

yet considered

alone could give

an inde-

it

it,

attained

the right to

the energy and devotion of our hearts.

can has circle,

rests

be

asserted

with

equal

produced a form of

its

right

own

that

for life

and with the Mongolian race that upon a theory of its own. But what

China done for humanity

in general,

and

for the 3

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