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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

making any progress.

without fact

that

from the

1

This accounts for the

among Protestant nations Pantheism, born new German Philosophy and owing its concrete

evolution-form

Darwin, claims for

to

more the supremacy in that of theology,

in

itself

more and

every sphere of human

and under

all

sorts of

and

to overthrow our Christian traditions,

life,

even

names

tries

is

bent even

upon exchanging the heritage of our fathers for a hopeThe leading thoughts that had less modern Buddhism. French Revolution at the close of the

their rise in the last,

and

German philosophy

in

century,

present

course of the

form together a life-system which

opposed

diametrically

in the

that

to

of our fathers.

is

Their

God and a purified Christianity; the present movement wages war for the sake of the glory of man being inspired, were

struggles

the sake of the glory of

for

not by the humble mind of Golgotha but by the pride of Hero-worship.

And why

so

weak,

we

constantly lose ground.-*

devoid

in

of an

the

face

equal

did we. Christians, stand

Modernism

of this

unity

Why

?

did

Simply because we were of life-conception,

such as

alone could enable us with irresistible energy to repel the

enemy

however,

is

at the frontier.

never to be found in a vague conception of

Protestantism tortuosities,

process, for

the

This unity of life-conception,

winding

itself

but you do find

as it

it

all

kind of

mighty

historic

does in

in that

which as Calvinism dug a channel of powerful stream

of

its

life.

By

in

our stand,

own

this unity of

conception alone as given in Calvinism, you

and we

its

in

America

Europe might be enabled once more to take by the side of Romanism, in opposition to

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