Calvinism - pagina 257

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CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE. from

liberation

their

over

the

such

European countries and

complete

as

we look which

States

as

political

they

life

if

for a life

and exerts a wholesome

present

endless internal strife; and,

do

in vain

weak, compa-

economic conditions

ratively unprogressive in their their

But

Financially they are

outside.

therefore,

test,

possible.

elevates, develops energy,

influence

The

Rome.

fair

derived from

is

have always been under

as

of

More-

Portugal.

American Romish States

those

in

of these

sway

undisputed

the is

population

and

Spain

253

the

;

in

sad spectacle of

one were incHned to form

an ideal picture of the future of the world, he might almost do so by imagining the very opposite of what is

Nor can

the actual situation in South-America.

Rome

pleaded in excuse of

that this

is

it

be

due to excep-

tional circumstances, for in the first place this political

backwardness in Peru,

is

met with not only

from the new to the old world, we reach,

same conclusion.

in spite of ourselves, the

the credit of

a

painful

affairs in

offer

all

Protestant states

Countries which are

the Southern at

Economic

discount.

is

revolutionary spirit have countries,

that

half

nominally Romish, has religion.

This

may

in

is

still,

made such

of the

be seen

less

in

is

than in

Italy,

visibly declining.

and a

infidelit}^

inroads

population,

reality

Catholic,

The outward power

states

more discouraging

high, that of

and administrative

cause for continual complaint.

what

is

In Europe,

Roman

Spain and Portugal, and not

and outside influence of these

And,

but likewise

the Venezuelian Republic

in Brazil as well as in

while, crossing

also,

in Chili,

in

though

broken with

France, which

all is

these still

true

almost

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