Calvinism - pagina 254

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

2 50

that

has

conquered the world; and that

throughout those

fifty

ages the best and most pious of

is

one

the

our

have paid homage to the Christ of tradition

race

and rejoiced

in

Him

as their Saviour in the

shadow of

Death.

Though

desiring to be second to none, therefore, in

sincere appreciation of I

to

am

settled

fully

what

is

my

in

noble

conviction that no help

A

be expected from that quarter.

virtually destroys the authority of the

as

a

book

sacred

lack

of

than

a

;

which

development;

sees

is

theology which

Holy Scriptures

sin

in

recognises

genius

religious

such attempts,

in

nothing but a

Christ

no more

for

of central significance; views

redemption as a mere reversal of our subjective mode

and indulges

of thinking;

in

opposed to the world of the is

like a

inrushing

dam

giving

tide.

It

is

way

a mysticism dualistically intellect,

before the

— such a theology first

assault of the

a theology without hold

upon the

masses, a quasi-religion utterly powerless to restore our sadly tottering moral

May more

to even a

temporary

footing.

perhaps be expected from the marvellous

energy displayed

in

the latter half of this century

by

Rome.'*

Let

Though

the history of the Reformation has etablished

us

not too hastily dismiss this question.

Rome and

a

fundamental antithesis between

it

would nevertheless be narrow-minded and short-sighted

to

underestimate

manifest ^

life

theism.

in

the

real

power

\\hich

ourselves,

even now

is

Rome's warfare against Atheism and Pan-

Only ignorance of the exhaustive

studies of

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