Calvinism - pagina 269

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

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of more than one of your 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

corresponding

out,

Not a

of Calvin.

trace

literally

with

have

words

the

among you

to be found

is

I

of

that

cynic anti-clericalism which has become identified

with

the very essence of the revolutionary democracy,

in

And when

France and elsewhere.

proclaims

a

the

houses

are

opened

day

national

Congress

of

of thanksgiving

assembled

prayer,

with

your President

it

is

when

Washington,

in

ever

or

new evidence

American democracy there runs even yet

that through

a vein, which, having sprung from the Pilgrim Fathers, exerts

still

power

its

Even your

at the present day.

common-school system, inasmuch

as

it

is

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

and autonomous character

decentralized

local

governments;

in

Sabbath-observance; held

part from individual initiative

the larger

for

among

your

in

;

in

the esteem in which

your sense

closeness of your family ties

speech

and

of conscience in

;

and

in

your

woman

for domesticity

;

deific-

in the

for

freedom

your Christian democrac}'

to the

is

your championship of

your unlimited regard

in all this

opposition

direct

revolution

;

in

;

in

and yet not nomistic

strict

you, without falling into the Parisian

ation of her sex

free

of

;

is

democracy of the French

historically also

it

is

demonstrable that

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