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CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

68 Bible?

What mother

"love

of our children" the very

loses herself in a treatise

moment

with

in their love

God

draughts?

full

own

that her

dear ones are playing about her knee, and

her to drink

upon the allows But, in

communion with and of our own heart is lost.

present condition, this immediate

our

God by means

of nature,

Sin brought separation instead, and the opposition which is

manifest nowadays, against the authority of the

1/Scriptures

based on nothing else than the

is

position that, our condition being

is

not wanted,

and grates upon your cludes

bright and

when

the

Now are

from

this

fact

your house^

feel

off the

artificiosi, i.e.^

artificial light is

the need of artificial

kindled in every dwelling.

the case in matters of religion.

hide

to

eyes,

that

what need

there then

is

upon the path?

and consciousness pure

the

and

full

all

be kindled

for us;

for us in His

For the Scriptures

if

you

— and

will,

an

for a

Heaven has in the dark,

artificial light

such a light

lamp

But when

unite in stating

light of

disappeared, and that we are groping about then, a different, or

When there

majesty of the divine light

the

or a light

feet,

history, experience

the

in

but

is

our

book

electric light,

mists

unto the

sun shines

the

you turn

clear,

and the

no

interposes a

communication ex-

sun disappears, below the horizon, you

the necessitas luniinis light,

it

heart. I^Oral

When

writing.

course, in that case,

becomes, indeed, a hindrance,

it

feelings, since

God and your

between

sup-

false

normal, our religion

still

For of

need not be soteriological. the Bible

Holy

God

must

has kindled

Holy Word.

Calvinist, therefore, the necessity of the

does

not

rest

in ratiocination,

Holy

but on the

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