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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

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known as Paganism, Islamism and Romanism, by which we distinguish four entirely different worlds in the one collective world of human life. And if, speaking precisely, you should coordinate Christianity and not Calvinism Paganism and Islamism,

with

is

it

nevertheless better

to place Calvinism in line with them, because Calvinism

embody

claims to

more purely and

the Christian idea

Romanism and Lutheranism.

accurately than could

Greek world of Russia and the Balkan

the

the national element

is still

In

States,

dominant, and therefore the

Christian faith in these countries has not yet been able

produce a form of

to

orthodoxy.

mystical

its

working of the

Lutheran

In

has

it

the

countries,

prevented the free

Hence of Romanism

spiritual principle. said, that

the root of

has embodied

its

life-thought

world of conceptions and utterances entirely

a

in

be

it

own from

its

magistrate

of the

interference

only can

of

life

own.

But by the

to

Calvinism

it,

side of

made

Romanism, and

in opposition

not merely ta

appearance,

its

its

create a different Church- form, but an entirely different

form

different

of the

is

life,

method of

human

That and

human

for

this

to furnish

existence,

human

and

society with a

to populate the world

heart with different ideals and conceptions.

had not been

realised

now acknowledged by

friend

until

our

time,

and enemy

in

consequence of a better study of history, should not surprise

us.

This

would not have been the

Calvinism had entered

and had presented its

the

origin

as a well-constructed system,

life

itself as

came about

order of existence,

in

case, if

an outcome of study.

But

an entirely different way. In

life

is

first.

And

to Calvinism

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