Calvinism a life-system - pagina 65

CALVINISM AND RELIGION. the

and the

clergy

pious

the

Holies,

6 the

constituting

cloister

Holy

of

forming the Holy Place, thus

laity

leaving the Outer Court to those who, although baptized,

continued to prefer to church-devotion the often sinful

—a

pleasures

of the world;

division,

which for those

system

setting nine tenths of practical

So

was made

religion

days of

life

it

to

times

of danger and sickness,

festival,

and from the

Hfe to the time of approaching death.

most emphatic expression

its

a

not of mirth and

Now

glory

and

but,

is

squarely anta-

The

sun,

above

consecrate

to

thriving in

it.

all,

God

And

man

exists for the sake of

is,

the

moon, and

air,

must give

stars in the fir-

the whole of Nature around

himself,

who,

priestlike,

whole of creation, and

remains

be immersed as

a

unchangeable,

in the

religious

must

all

life

although sin has deadened a large

part of creation to the glory of God, the demand, ideal,

its

complete .universal ap-

follows that the whole creation

mament, the birds of the us,

its

everything that

it

God.

to

folly.

character,

If

God, then

cup of pleasure^

Calvinism, which vindicates for religion

universal

plication.

full

whole view of the matter

this

gonized by full

in the

sway over

chance, before descending into this vale of

fair

gloom, to empty to the dregs the if

full

during the weeks of Lent, but leaving to the

soul

flesh

fulness of

A dualistic system

praxis of the Carnival, giving Religion a the

from ordinary

from days of prosperity to

days

which has found

in

outside of all religion.

by carrying

partial,

and

limitation

of

Outer Court, ended

in the

stream of

offering

— the

that every creature

must

and end by

lying

religion,

on the

altar of the

Almighty.

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