Calvinism - pagina 96

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CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

92 very

this in

church and abandon the world to

Ills

rather,

feels,

of

the

corruption, everything that

is

and of good report among men.

we

see

History

in

my own firmly

(if I

established

when

in

there

merce and

trade,

agriculture

and with

flourished

honourable, lovely,

Therefore

that

is

scarcely had Calvinism been

was a

of

rustling

human

in

life

all

their handicrafts

horticulture,

a

brilliancy

new impulse

a life,

to the

for

their

com-

and industry,

their

activity,

their

and

and

art

mean

science,

previously unknown, and

an entirely new develop-

whole of Western Europe.

wish both to maintain and to place in

What

it

be permitted to speak of

This admits of only one exception, and I

much

the Netherlands for a quarter of

every department of

ment of

do

to

and an indomitable energy was fermenting

directions,

imparted

may

that

ancestors),

a century,

in

and

stage,

of God, upholding, in the midst of so

sake

painful

higher

accordance with God's ordinance, for

constant

in

He

fate.

its

high calling to push the development

his

world to an even

this

this

the Calvinist cannot sluit hhnself up

reason

this

exception

proper

its

light.

Not every intimate intercourse with the unconverted world is deemed lawful, by CalI

vinism, for influence

it

is

this.

placed a barrier against the too unhallowed

of this world

by putting a

card playing^

three

things,

three

forms of amusement which

parately,

and then

distinct "veto"

theatres^

set forth in their

upon

and dancing

I shall

—

flrst treat se-

combined

significance.

Card-playing has been placed under a ban by Calvinism,

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