Calvinism - pagina 268

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

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only take place at

critical

moments

In the

in history.

ordinary run of things eighty per cent of the Christian population die in the church

and baptized.

in

which they were born

Besides, such an identification of

my pro-

gramme with the absorption of one church by another would be at variance with the whole tendency of my argument.

Not ecclesiastically, confined to a narrow circle, but as a phenomenon of universal significance, have T commended you

to

the

may

ask,

points

the

Calvinism

that Calvinism shall no longer be ignored where

:

its

influence are

Calvinism shall again be

order that the outside world

in it;

that

3.

I

the main be reduced to the following four

in

after-effects of

that

Therefore what

of history.

principles

its

made

may

manifest;

still

2.

a subject of study

cease to misrepresent

be developed

shall again

in

accordance with the needs of our time, and consistently applied not only to Theology, but to every department of

and

life;

to confessing

4.

that the churches which

it,

shall cease being

lay claim

still

ashamed of their own

confession.

where of

its

Calvinism

then,

First it

still

should no longer be ignored

but rather be retraced where traces

exists,

historical influence are

out in

detail,

with even

still

A pointing

manifest.

some degree

of completeness,

of the traces that Calvinism has everywhere in

social

would

and

in itself

thought of therefore,

in

political,

demand

in

scientific

and

in

life,

a broader study than could be

Allow me

an American audience, to point

addressing

already observed

behind

aesthetic

the rapid course of a lecture.

out a single feature

left

in

your own

political

m\' third lecture

how

in

life.

I

have

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