Calvinism a life-system - pagina 47

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM. this

would remain a bare

ponding has in

reality,

another

of the

if

possibility without

and

channel,

And

nations.

any

corres-

history did not testify that Calvinism

caused the stream of

achtally

43

human

life

to flow

has ennobled the social

therefore in closing

I

life

assert that

Calvinism not only held out these possibilities but has also

understood ho w to

realize

just ask yourselves (what

and America, had

the

if in

suddenly

not

Europe.

Netherlands.

this,

6th century the star of Calvinism

arisen

on the horizon of Western

Spain would have crushed the

case

that

In

1

To prove

them.

would have become of Europe

England and Scotland the Stuarts

In

would have carried out

their fatal plans. In Switzerland

the spirit of half-heartedness would have gained the day.

The beginnings been

of an

of

in this

life

character.

different

entirely

new world would have

And

as

an

unavoidable sequence the balance of power in Europe

would have returned

to

its

former position.

would not have been able to maintain

No

further

resistance

could

Protestantism

itself in politics.

have been offered to the

Romish-conservative power of the Habsburgs, the Bour-

bons and the Stuarts; and the

free

development of the

Europe and America, would simply have been prevented. The whole American continent would have remained subject to Spain^The history of nations, as seen in

both

continents

one and

it

would have become a most mournful

ever remains a question whether the spirit

would not have succeded, by way of a Romanized Protestantism, in reducing Northern of the

Leipzig Interim

Europe again

to the

sway of the old Hierarchy.

The

enthusiastic devotion of the best historians of the second

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