Calvinism - pagina 28

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

24 immediate invented

because

but

it,

God Himself had which

This

conscious. history,

in

and which

only

the

first

immediate fellowship

become

to

clearly Spirit

by which Calvinism has been consecrated, interprets

beats faintly

us

to

its

wondrous

when the

in history

energy.

pulse of religious

but there are times when

;

bounding, and the latter was the case

among

Calvin

work of the Holy

the great

is

There are times life

this

in

because

not

granted to our fathers a privilege of

was

Calvin

God,

with

fellowship

the

in

the nations of Western Europe.

its

is

century

i6tii

The

beat

question

of faith at that time dominated every activity in public life.

New

history

out from this faith, even as

starts

the history of our times starts from the unbelief o(th.t

French Revolution. of religious that

there

obeys,

life

such

is

religious tension the

the heart

God was Pilgrim

is

What

law

this pulse-like

we cannot

and that

a law,

but

tell,

is

evident

in times of high

inworking of the Holy Spirit upon

irresistible;

and

this

mighty inworking

of

the experience of our Calvinists, Puritans and Fathers.

same degree,

It

was not

for this never

in

all

happens

individuals to the in

any great move-

ment; but they who formed the centre of times,

it

movement

who were

they experienced

life

in those

the promotors of that mighty change, this

higher power to the

fullest:

and

men and women of every class of society and nationality who by God Himself were admitted

they were the

communion with the majesty of His eternal Being. Thanks to this work of God in the heart, the persuasion into

that the whole of a man's

Divine

life is

to be lived as in the

Presence has become the fundamental thought

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