Calvinism a life-system - pagina 21

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM. This point, of course,

lies in

1

the antithesis between

all

human life and the infinite that lies beyond it. Here alone we find the common source from which the different streams of our human life

that

is

finite in

our

spring and separate themselves. repeated

all

the rays of our

life

converge as

and so painfully lies

we

focus,

so often

the stress of daily duty.

lose in

In

not only our unity with God, but also the

unity of our personal fore,

one

in

and there alone regain that harmony, which prayer

our

is

it

where we disclose ourselves to the Eternal

at the point

One,

Personally

experience that in the depths of our hearts,

Movements

life.

which do not spring from

in history, there-

deepest source are

this

always partial and transient, and only those historical acts,

which arose from these lowest depths of man's

personal existence embrace the whole of

and possess

life

the required permanence.

This was the case with Paganism, which general form

is

known by

assumes and worships God to the lowest

ism.

Animism,

rise to

independent existence of a

But even

the fact that

in the creature.

it

in this

most

surmises,

This applies

as well as to the highest

Paganism does not

creature.

in its

Buddh-

the conception of the

God beyond and above imperfect form

it

the

has for

its

starting-point a definite interpretation of the relation of

the infinite to the to

because W.

finite,

and to

produce a finished form it

life.

this

it

human

owed

power

its

society.

Simply

possessed this significant starting-point was

able to produce

.human

for

—

characterized

It

by

is

a form of

the its

its

own

same with

purely

for the

Islaviism,

anti-pagan ideal,

whole of ^yhich

is

cutting 2

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