Calvinism - pagina 49

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM. and a bright hope to unveil

bring

to

The

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for the future.

of the Boers in the Transvaal against

struggle

one of the mightiest powers must often have reminded

you of your own

In

past.

what has been achieved

at

Majuba, and recently at the occasion of Jameson's raid the heroism of old Calvinism was again brilliantly evident. If

to

Calvinism had not been passed on from our fathers African

their

have arisen

its

in the

germ the Yea,

glory.

no

free

republic would

South of the Dark Continent. This

that Calvinism

proves in

descendants,

vital

is

not dead

— that

it

still

energy of the days of

its

carries

former

even as a grain of wheat from the Sar-

cophagi of the Pharaohs, when again committed to the soil,

bears

in itself a

And

if

fruit

a hundredfold, so Calvinism

wondrous power

we,

Christians

holier struggle, are

still

still

carries

for the future of the nations.

of both Continents, in our

still

expected to achieve heroic deeds,

marching under the banner of the Cross against the spirit

of the times,

inflexible

principle,

Calvinism alone arms us with an

by the strength of

that principle

guaranteeing us a sure, though far from easy victory.

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