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CALVINISM AND ART.

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when, having reached the years of maturity, they stand before

you,

man and woman, you

as

with forms, and

and modes of expression, pecu-

traits,

And

harly their own.

them both

see

arrived at their highest de-

so,

velopment, both ReHgion and Art demand an independent

and

existence,

two stems which

the

intertwined

and seemed to belong

now appear

to spring

the process from

is

Aaron

their

same

plant,

own.

This

from Bezaleel and

to Christ,

And, by

Aholiab to the Apostles.

virtue of that

Calvinism occupies a higher standpoint

process, 1

to the

from a root of

6th century than

Romanism

were

at first

same

in

the

Consequently

could reach.

Calvinism was neither able, nor even permitted, to develop an art-style of

To have done lower level

a

nobler

effort

its

religious

must be

to

life.

its

religious principle.

On

release

worship more and more from encourage

its

would have been

this

of

own from

its

vigorous spirituality.

to slide back to

the contrary,

religion

and divine

sensual form and to

This

it

was enabled

do because of the powerful pulsebeat by which

to

that time the religious

And

of mankind. vinistic

life

its

at

coursed through the arteries

the fact that in these days, our Cal-

churches are deemed cold and tmheimish^ and a

reintroduction of the symbolical in our places of worship is

longed

for,

we owe

beat of the religious

than

it

was

in

life

life

ing

in

our times

is

so

the days of our martyrs.

from borrowing from a lower

to the sad reality that the pulse-

this the right ot

much

fainter

But so

far

redescending to'

level of religion, this faintness of the religious

ought

to inspire the

of the

Holy

Spirit.

prayer for a mightier inwork-

Second childhood,

in

your

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