Calvinism a life-system - pagina 258

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

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Roman

entirely

Catholic,

and yet has voted time and

again with overwhelming majorites against the advocates

of religion.

In

fact

we may say

that,

in

order to

appreciate the noble, energetic traits of the Romanists,

one must observe them, not in their own countries where they are on the decline, but in Centrum of Protestant North-Germany, in Protestant Holland and England, and where,

in

your own Protestant

States. In regions

deprived of a controlling influence, they adjust

themselves to the polity of others and concentrate their strength as an opposition party, under such leaders as

Manning and Wiseman, Von Ketteler and Windthorst, they compel our admiration by the enthusiastic championship of their cause.

But even apart from nished by

Rome

this

testimonmm

patipertatis fur-

the mismanagement Europe and South- America, where she has

in Southern

herself through

sway, in the contest of the nations also her power

full

visibly waning. The balance of power now gradually passing into the hands of Russia, Germany and England, every one of them nonRomish States, and on your own continent the Protestant

and influence are

in

Europe

is

North holds the supremacy.

Since 1866 Austria has

been continually retrogressing, and at the death of the present

Emperor

will

lution.

Italy has

attempted to

it

be seriously threatened with dissolive

beyond

its

resources:

strove to be a great, colonial, naval power, and the that

result

is

ruin.

The

is

has brought

battle

more than her have absolutely

of

itself to

Addua

the verge of economic

dealt

colonial aspirations. lost all influence

the death-blow to

Spain and Portugal

on the

social, intellec-

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