Calvinism - pagina 167

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE. fury

Man

of wild beasts.

damage

doing can

subject

can

make

his

the

In

behind bars; 2^. he it;

by domesticating a

similar

and

3".

he

e.

g.^

by

it,

dog and

wild

originally

animals.

it

by taming

will

attractive

it

transforming

domestic

to

it

63

can prevent the beast from

by putting

i^.

1

cat

into

manner God by His

•-^common grace" restrains the operation of sin in man,

by breaking

partly

power, partly by taming his

and partly by domesticating

spirit,

Common

evil

his nation or his family.

grace has thus led to the result that an ungen-

may

erated sinner is

its

lovely

and

and

captivate

of energy,

full

by much

attract us

just

as

our

that

domestic

animals do, but this of course after the manner of man.

The it

nature

of

This

was.

sin,

remains as venomous as

however,

seen in the cat, which, brought back

is

to the woods, returns to

its

former wild state after two

generations,

and a similar experience has been made

with regard

human nature, just now, in Armenia He who reads an account of the massacres

and Cuba.

to

Bartholemew

of St.

horrors

those days,

easily

inclined

to place these

account of the low state of culture

the

to

is

but

behold!

our

nineteenth century has

surpassed these horrors by the massacres

And

he who

has

read

a description

committed by the Spaniards villages

and

cities

in

in the

in

Armenia.

of the cruelties

i6th century in the

of the Netherlands against defenceless

women and children, and then heard the news what occurred now in Cuba, cannot help acknow-

old men,

of

ledging

been iiot

that,

repeated

come

what in

w^as

a

disgrace

the 19th century.

in

the i6th, has

Where

evil

does

to the surface, or does not manifest itself in

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