Calvinism a life-system - pagina 119

CALVINISM AND POLITICS. Therefore

115

both to the atheistic popular-

in opposition

of the Encyclopedians, and the pantheistic

sovereignty

state-sovereignty of

German

philosophers, the Calvinist

maintains the sovereignty of God, as the source of authority

and best

among men.

Calvinist upholds the highest

in our aspirations,

by placing every man and

every people before the face of our Father

He

all

The

in

heaven.

takes cognizance of the fact of sin, which erstwhile

was juggled away

in

extravagance,

accounted the essence of our being.

Calvinism

tie,

and which now,

in pessimistic

points to the difference between the natural

concatnation ical

in

1789,

of

our organic society and the mechan-

which the authority of the magistrate imposes.

It

makes

all

authority,

easy for us to obey authority, because,

it

sovereignty.

it

causes us to honour the

It lifts

demand

in

of divine

us from an obedience born of dread

of the strong arm, into an obedience for conscience sake. It

teaches us to look

source

upward from the

of the eternal

Right

in

existing law to the

God, and

it

creates in

us the indomitable courage incessantly to protest against

the unrighteousness of the law in the Right. itself

the

eye,

King

tains

unto bless

house

of this highest

And, however, powerfully the State may assert

and oppress the

free individual

that powerful State there soul's

name

the

as infinitely

of kings; right

Whom our

of

is

always

development, above

glittering, before

our

more powerful, the majesty of

Whose appeal

righteous for

all

bar ever main-

the oppressed, and

the prayer of the people ever ascends, to

nation

and,

in

that

nation,

us

and our

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