Calvinism - pagina 263

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

259

cism eradiates a fervour that warms the heart and woe ;

betide the giant of dogrna and the hero of action,

are strangers to

God

depth and tenderness.

its

who

created

hand, head, and heart, the hand for the deed, the head

King

for the word, the heart for mysticism.

prophet in

threefold

his

that

tianity

and

neglects

the

We

are

whenever

priest in heart, shall

a

mystic element grows frigid therefore

life

it

made

is

would be a sad taken by

itself,

air

mistake

be

accounted

Through

of spring.

and

deeper,

truer,

to

atmosphere envelopes

mystic

making us breathe the balmy

us,

man

stand before God, and a Chris-

office

congeals.

fortunate

and

profession,

in

in deed,

But

richer.

it

suppose that mysticism,

to

can bring about a reversal in the

spirit

Not Bernard of Clairvaux but Thomas of Aquino, not Thomas a Kempis but Luther have ruled of the age.

the spirits

of men.

and

seclusive,

strives

outside world. tiated

live

take a

Mysticism

Its

of the

positive

is

in its

,

very nature,

rather to avoid contact with the

very strength soul

stand.

and on flows

It

lies

this

in

the indifferen-

account

sided

What

is

worse,

history proves that

degenerated

Accordingly, although practical

above

all

one-

Mysticism

the is

its

mysticism, of the flesh

moral infamy.

rejoice in the revival of both

I

and mystical tendencies, both

in loss instead of gain, if for

a

into

astounding the world with

sate

lines

mysticism has always become morbid, and has

ultimately

the

cannot

along a subterranean

bed and does not show sharply demarcated ground.

it

will result

they are expected to compen-

abandonment

of the

Truth of Salvation,

sweet and Christian works are precious,

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