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CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

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vention disappears, where God's sovereign election from eternity binds the inward soul directly to

all

and where the ray of divine

most absolute

in its

This question

and

if its

follows

is

third

religious

all-subduing,

it

be made dependent on

cannot be

logically

those

to

realization

religion

tors,

the

to

and

that

but partial.

man

every

occurrences of his

himself

clerical

media-

In that case

it

confines his religion

by which

life

?

man

aim of religion be found in

the

if

ideal realization.

tmiversal in the strict sense of the word

comprehensive,

Now,

naturally,

there does religion,

its

religion partial, or

Is

:

sense, gain

me,

leads

Himself,

light enters straightway

— only

the depth of our heart,

into

God

his religious

needs are stirred, and to those cases in which he finds

human

intervention at his disposal.

of this sort of religion shows the

in

The

three particulars

itself in

organ through which,

religious

partial character

in the sphere in

among

which, religion

Recent controversy affords a pertinent

illustration of

which, and in the group ofpersons

has to thrive and flourish.

the

first

limitation.

The

wise

maintain that religion has of the either

human

intellect.

to It

men

retire

clinations

are

of religion, leading to

practical

hailed

will.

with

from the precinct

must seek

to express itself

or else

by

Mystical and ethical

in-

by means of the mystical

means of the

of our generation

feelings,

enthusiasm,

in

the domain

same domain the intellect, as metaphysical hallucinations, must be muzzled.

Metaphysics

but

in

that

and Dogmatics are increasingly tabooed,

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