Calvinism - pagina 21

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM. This point, of course,

lies in

I7

the antithesis between

all

human life and the infinite that lies beyond it. Here alone we find the common source from which the different streams of our human life

that

is

finite in

our

spring and separate themselves.

experience that

repeated

all

it

our

is

the depths of our hearts,

where we disclose ourselves to the Eternal

at the point

One,

in

Personally

the rays of our hfe converge as in one focus,

and there alone regain that harmony, which we so often and so painfully prayer

lies

In

not only our unity with God, but also the

unity of our personal fore,

the stress of daily duty.

lose in

life.

Movements

which do not spring from

this

in history, there-

deepest source are

always partial and transient, and only those historical acts,

which arose from these lowest depths of man's

personal existence embrace the whole of

life

and possess

the required permanence.

This was the case with Paganism, which in

its

most

known by the fact that it surmises, assumes and worships God in the creatnre. This applies

general form

is

to the lowest

Animism,

ism.

Paganism

does

as well as to the highest

not rise to the conception of the

independent existence of a creature.

But even

Buddh-

in this

God beyond and above imperfect form

it

has for

the its

starting-point a definite interpretation of the relation of

the infinite to the to

and to

produce a finished form

because it

finite,

it

life.

owed

it

human

power

its

society.

Simply

possessed this significant starting-point was

able to produce

human

for

this

—

characterized

It

by

is

a form of the its

its

own

same with

purely

for the

Islamisin,

anti-pagan

ideal,

whole of which

is

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