Calvinism a life-system - pagina 19

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

making any progress.

without fact

among

that

1

This accounts for the

evolution-form

Darwin, claims for

to

more the supremacy in that of theology,

and under

overthrow our Christian

to

itself

sorts of

all

and

traditions,

concrete

its

more and

every sphere of human

in

born

nations Pantheism,

Protestant

from the new German Philosophy and owing

life,

even

names

tries

is

bent even

upon exchanging the heritage of our fathers for a hopeless

last,

and

French Revolution

German philosophy

in

century,

present

were

a

in the

course of the

of our

that

to

fathers.

is

Their

God and movement wages

the sake of the glory of

for

present

the

Christianity;

purified

at the close of the

form together a life-system which

opposed

diametrically struggles

leading thoughts that had

The

modern Buddhism.

their rise in the

war for the sake of the glory of man being

inspired,

not by the humble mind of Golgotha but by the pride

And why

of Hero-worship. so

weak,

in

we constantly devoid

of an

the

face

did we, Christians, stand

Modernism

of this

lose

ground.

equal

unity

Why

?

did

Simply because we were

-

such as

of life-conception,

alone could* enable us with irresistible energy to repel the

enemy

however,

is

at the frontier.

Protestantism tortuosities,

process, for

the

This unity of Hfe-conception,

never to be found

winding

itself

but you do find

in

as

a vague conception of it

kind of historic

which as Calvinism dug a channel of powerful

stream

of

its

life.

By

-conception alone as given in Calvinism,

and we

all

mighty

does in

in that

it

in

its

you

in

America

Europe might be enabled once more

our stand, by the side of Romanism,

in

own

this unity of

to take

opposition to

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