Calvinism a life-system - pagina 268

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

264

only take place at

moments

critical

In the

in history.

ordinary run of things eighty per cent of the Christian population die in the church in which they were born

and

Besides, such an identification of

baptized.

my pro-

gramme with the absorption of one church by another would be at variance with the whole tendency of my argument.

Not ecclesiastically, confined to a narrow circle, but as a phenomenon of universal significance, have! commended you the Calvinism of

to ask,

may

points

the

that Calvinism shall no longer be igijored

:

after-effects of

influence are

its

Calvinism shall again be

that

world

in order that the outside it;

Therefore what

history.

that

3.

I

the main be reduced to the following four

in

principles

its

made

may

where

manifest;

still

2.

a subject of study

cease to misrepresent

shall again

be developed

in

accordance with the needs of our time, and consistently applied not only to Theology, but to every department of

and

life;

to confessing

4. that it,

the churches which

shall cease being

lay claim

still

ashamed of their own

confession.

where of

its

Calvinism

then,

First it

still

should no longer be ignored

but rather be retraced where traces

exists,

historical influence are

out in

detail,

with even

still

A pointing

manifest.

some degree of completeness,

of the traces that Calvinism has everywhere in

social

would

and

in itself

thought of therefore,

political,

in

scientific

and

left

behind

aesthetic

life,

demand a broader study than could be

in the rapid

addressing

out a single feature already observed in

course of a lecture.

Allow me

an American audience, to point in

my

your own

political

third lecture

how

life.

in the

I

have

preamble

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