Calvinism - pagina 65

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. and the

the clergy

pious

the

Holies,

leaving the Outer

6l the

constituting

cloister

Holy of

forming the Holy Place, thus

laity

^'^/^r^ 'to

those who, although baptized,

continued to prefer to church-devotion the often sinful of the world

pleasures

;

—a

which for those

division,

system

So

was made

religion

days of

life

times

of danger and sickness,

festival,

found

most emphatic expression

its

not of mirth and

Now

If

God, then glory

folly.

it

and

character,

but,

The

above

consecrate to thriving in

is

squarely anta-

sun,

it.

all,

God

And

man the

exists for the sake of

is,

moon, and

must give

stars in the

remains

fir-

the whole of Nature around

air,

himself,

who,

priestlike,

whole of creation, and

must

all

life

although sin has deadened a large

part of creation to the glory of God, the demand, ideal,

its

complete universal ap-

follows that the whole creation

mament, the birds of the us,

its

everything that

God.

to

cup of pleasure,

Calvinism, which vindicates for religion

universal

plication.

full

whole view of the matter

this

gonized by full

sway over

chance, before descending into this vale of

fair

gloom, to empty to the dregs the if

full

in the

during the weeks of Lent, but leaving to the

the soul a

fulness of

A dualistic system

praxis of the Carnival, giving Religion a

flesh

from ordinary

and from the

to the time of approaching death.

has

it

from days of prosperity to

to

which

in

outside of all religion.

by carrying

partial,

days

life

Outer Court, ended

in the

setting nine tenths of practical

and

limitation

of

unchangeable,

that every creature

— the must

be immersed in the stream of religion, and end by lying as

a

religious

offering

on the

altar of the

Almighty.

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