Calvinism a life-system - pagina 49

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM. and a bright hope to unveil

bring

to

The

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for the future.

of the Boers in the Transvaal against

struggle

one of the mightiest powers must often have reminded

you of your own past. In what has been achieved at Majuba, and recently at the occasion of Jameson's raid the heroism of old Calvinism was again brilliantly evident. If

Calvinism had not been passed on from our fathers

to

African

their

have arisen proves in

its

in

descendants,

the

that Calvinism

germ the Yea,

glory.

no

free

republic

would

South of the Dark Continent. This

vital

is

not dead

— that

it

still

energy of the days of

its

carries

former

even as a grain of wheat from the Sar-

cophagi of the Pharaohs, when again committed to the soil,

bears

fruit

a hundredfold, so Calvinism

still

carries

in itself

a wondrous power for the future of the nations.

And

we.

if

marching under spirit

still

the

of the times,

inflexible

of both Continents, in our

Christians

holier struggle, are

principle,

still

expected to achieve heroic deeds,

banner Calvinism

of the Cross against the

alone arms us with an

by the strength of that

principle

guaranteeing us a sure, though far from easy victory.

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