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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

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name

Calvinist

name.

This

used in our I'm 5'.

is

as a sectarian

not the case in Protestant, but

is

especially

countries,

Catholic

first

in

in

Roman

Hungary and France.

Hungary the Reformed Churches have a membership some two and a-half millions, and in both the Romish and Jewish press of that country her members are

In

of

faith of

name of'-'Calwho have a derisive name themselves of all traces of sympathy with the The same phenomenon presents their fathers.

itself in

France, especially in the Southern parts, where

constantly stigmatized by the non-official vinists",

divested

applied even to those

"Calviniste" sectarian

equally,

is

and even more emphatically,

which does not

stigma,

confession of the stigmatized person, but

upon every member though he be an his

atheist.

anti-Calvinistic

as the

George Thiebaud, known

spirit

in

at the

France,

exclusively

In as

this

the

of fore-ordination.

attachment with

the

and even

in the

—

use of the word Calvinism, and this one.

for

same time revived

two anti-national forces, prejudicial to the Directly opposed to this \s th. second

''esprit gaulois".

sional

simply put

"J^ws and Calvinists" were arraigned by

Dreyfus-case,

him

is

of the Reformed Churches, even

anti-Semitic propaganda, has

the

a

refer to the faith or

call

Calvinist

a

sense,

I

is

the confes-

represented

outspoken subscriber to the

They who disapprove

dogma

of this strong

to the doctrine of predestination cooperate

Romish

polemists,

"Calvinist", they represent

narrowness; and what

is

in

you

worse

that

by

calling

as a victim of still,

to the real seriousness of moral

life.

you

dogmatic

as being dangerous

This

is

a stigma

so conspicuously offensive that theologians like Hodge,

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