Calvinism - pagina 239

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE. on the American continent,

although

world, a relatively healthier tone of

mind.

thinking

the

It

a

in

life

younger

prevails than in

moment

senescent Europe, yet this will not for a lead

235

mis-

impossible for you to

is

shut yourselves off hermetically from the old world, as

you form no humanity

body

great

member

apart, but are a

And

of the race.

of the

the poison having once

entered the system at a single point in due time must necessarily pervade the whole organism.

Now

the

fronted

question

serious

whether we can expect that by natural evo-

is

a higher phase of social

lution

the present spiritual decHne. to

question

this

Babylon,

in

periods

like

far

is

Egypt,

lands

has the

a

nations

to

develop out of

The answer

history supplies

life

from encouraging.

of vigorous spiritual

itself in

will

in Persia,

by times of these

which we are con-

with

in

China and elsewhere,

growth have been succeeded

decadence; and yet in not one of

downward course

movement towards higher

stagnation.

In

the

Roman

finally resolved

things.

day have persevered

this

In India, in

All these

in their spiritual

empire alone has the dark

night

of boundless demoralisation been broken

dawn

of a

higher

through evolution;

The

Christ

of

life. it

But

this

light

by the

did not arise

shone from the Cross of Calvary.

God had

appeared, and by his Gospel

alone was the society of that time saved from certain destruction.

the

middle

bankruptcy,

And ages

again,

when towards

the

close

Europe was threatened with

a second

of

social

resurrection from the dead and

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