Calvinism - pagina 240

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

236 a

manifestation

now among

to

of the Reformation, but this

of evolution, but again through

for

which the hearts were thirsting

and whose truth was

What

power were witnessed,

way

same Gospel

the

vital

peoples

the

not by

time also

new

of

freely

proclaimed as never before.

antecedents then does history furnish to lead us

expect

present instance an evolution of

the

in

life

from death, whilst the symptoms of decomposition already

Mohammed,

suggest the bitterness of the grave.' true,

among

stir

Levant by second

if

bones

dead

the

greater

even

than

is

in creating a

throughout the

himself upon

throwing

Messiah,

assuredly

century succeeded

seventh

the

in

it

entire

the

nations

as a

the

Christ.

And

the coming of another Christ, surpassing in

glory the Christ of Bethlehem, were possible, then the cure

moral

for

have been anxiously looking

indeed

some

glorious

instil

his

"Universal

vitalizing

Hence some

were found.

corruption

Spirit",

power

for the

who might

idle fancies.?

Nothing can possibly surpass the God-given

and what we are Messiah,

is

the

to

again

into the heart-blood of the

But why dwell longer on such

nations.

coming of

look

for,

Christ,

of a second

instead

second coming of the same Christ

ot

Calvary, this time with His fan in His hand for judgment,

not to open up for our sin-cursed but

to

the

history

receive

therefore,

is

at

its

life

a

new

evolution,

goal and solemnly to conclude

of the world.

Either this second coming,

near at hand, and what

we

are witnessing

are the death-throes of humanity; or a rejuvenation still

in

store

for

us

come only through

;

but

if so,

is

that rejuvenation can

the old and yet ever

new Gospel

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