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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

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steady development waters of

an

its

isolated

life

Even

of our race?

were

so far as the

they formed nothing but

clear,

Almost the same remark

lake.

applies to

the high development which was once the boast of India

and

the state of things in Mexico and Peru in the

to

days of Montezuma and the Incas.

In

all

these regions

the people attained a high degree of development, but

stopped there, and, remaining isolated, a benefit strongly

humanity

to still

to

the

at

life

in

no way proved

This applies more

large.

of the coloured races on the

—a

coast and in the interior of Africa

far

lower forni

of existence, reminding us not even of a lake but rather

There

of pools and marshes.

and

broad

but one world-stream,

is

which from the beginning bore the

fresh,

promise of the future. This stream had

its rise

in Middle-

and the Levant, and has steadily continued

Asia

course from

East to West.

From Western Europe

its it

has passed on to your Eastern States and from thence to California.

ment

are

Nile.

From

Greece the

it

The

found

sources of this stream of develop-

in

Babylon and

thence

passed

Romanic nations

flowed

it

on

to it

the

in the valley of the

on

to

Greece.

Roman

Empire.

continued

its

way

From From

to the North-

western parts of Europe, and from Holland and England it

reached at length your continent.

stream

China tell

in

is

At

present that

Western course through impeded; meanwhile no one can

at a standstill.

and Japan

what

Its

forces for the future

may

yet

lie

slumbering

the Slavic races which have thus far failed of pro-

gress. in

is

But while

this secret of the future is

mystery, the course of

this

still

veiled

world-stream from East

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