Calvinism a life-system - pagina 278

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

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SO sadly weakened

,

been basely and cravenly abandoned

? Has not the Greek been crushed by the Turk, while Gladstone, the Christian statesman,

to the fate of assassination

who had

a Calvinist to the very core,

politically

courage to

brand the Sultan

departed from

among

"Great Assassin",

Accordingly radical deter-

us?

mination must be insisted upon.

guarantee

the

desired

the

has

result.

brace us for the conflict.

Half-measures cannot SuperficiaHty

will

not

must again bear

Principle

witness against principle, world-view against world-view, spirit

And

against spirit.

better speak,

but

for

I

here,

him wiio knows

let

one know of no stronger and

no firmer bulwark than Calvinism, provided in its sound and vigorous formation.

And

you

if

enough

to

reversal

in

lowing

my

from men

:

mockingly,

retort, half

expect

from

certain

am

I

it

be taken

really naif

Calvinistic

studies

the Christian world-view, then be the

The quickening

answer: it is

of

life

the prerogative of God, and

it is

comes not due to His

sovereign will alone, whether or not the tide of religious rise

spring, again,

In the moral world, too,

when the

congeals,

Now

all is

cold

and

we have

one time,

at

budding and rustling with

of winter,

all religious

the period

in

when every

energy

is

vital

life,

and

stream

petrified.

which we are living

at present,

surely at a low ebb religiously.

Unless

no

life

high in one century, and run to a low ebb in the

next.

is

a

fol-

turn,

waters.

God send and

forth

His

fearfully rapid will

Spirit,

there

will

be

be the descent of the

But you remember the Aeolian Harp, which

men were wont

to

place outside their casement, that

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