Calvinism a life-system - pagina 41

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM. Romanistic and Calvinistic

Europe

conflict in

37

and the present

civilization,

America

as well as in

finds

its

main

cause in the fundamental antithesis between the energy

of Calvinism which preceded from the throne of God,

found the source of sphere

every

in

— and

its

proclaimed

its

God,

and is

power

its

of

Thus

French Revolution, which

unbelief in the cry

of, '•'no

more and more

itself

God no

to a

modern Paganism,

was not too bold, when

notice I

master";

form of German Pantheism

wliich presently in the

reducing

of God, and

the glory of

exalted

life

carricature in the

Word

the

in

human

I

claimed for

Calvinism the honour of being neither an ecclesiastical,

nor a theological, nor a sectarian conception, but one of the of

phases in

principal

human

our

whose high

and among these the youngest,

race;

calling

development

general

the

still

is

— Just

to

influence

the

further

now, however, allow

me

to indicate another circumstance, which strengthens

my

course

of

human

hfe.

the covuiiingling

principal

statement,

thus

the* physical basis of all higher

far,

opment.

From

came down

viz.,

the high-lands of

groups,

in

of blood

as,

human develAsia our human race

and these

in

turn have been

divided into races and nations; and in entire conformity to the prophetic blessing of

Noah

the children of Shem

and of Japheth have been the sole bearers of the development of the

race.

No

impulse for any higher

ever gone forth from the third group. other

groups

There are

a twofold

tribal nations

life

has

With the two

phenomenon presents

itself

which have isolated themselves

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