Calvinism - pagina 189

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE. the question,

which

if

enabled

found now

in a

May God from

it,

still

win their

to

suit at last,

will

be

higher degree, with Christian scholars.

You

it!

you even may

cannot, nay,

deprive him, whose consciousness differs

That

everything that

they, from their standpoint pull

is

holy

your estimation,

in

is

down

unavoidable.

of seeking rehef for your scientific conscience

Instead in

them

of freedom of thought, of speech and of

yours,

the press.

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the courage, the perseverance, the energy,

grant

not think of

1

downhearted complaints, or

unconfessional work,

mystic feeling, or in

in

the energy and the thoroughness

of our antagonists must be

by every

felt

Christian scholar

as a sharp incentive himself also to go back to his

renew

principles in his thinking, to

own

all scientific investi-

gation on the lines of these principles, and to glut the press with the burden of his cogent studies. sole

with the thought, that

ourselves

danger leave secular science nents,

be the

we only succeed

if

on

after all

single

of

is

As

permeated

by

in shutting

your eyes

wherein shield.

so

it.

many

confine yourself to the the rest of the house

long ago

knew

a PJiilosophia CJiristiana,

for

more or

principles,

hands of our oppo-

Calvin

every faculty, and

science,

antithesis

when

indeed.

foolish

is

when he asked

better,

and

To

tactics of the ostrich.

fire,

we may without

in saving theology, ours will

saving of your upper room, is

in the

If we con-'

in these faculties

less

connected

every

with

the

and should consequently be

little

may you

seek your safety

to the actual conditions of things,

Christians

imagine they find a safe

Everything astronomers or geologists, physicists

or chemists, zoologists

or bacteriologists, historians or

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