Calvinism - pagina 6

— CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

2

through our Fall;

— and

an enchantment of

has not the harvest of Autumn

own?

its

But, though, on the other hand,

the advantage you possess in the

than with

faster

hind,

—

us,

— leaving

we both

still

us

not some thing separate from

human

the same current of

you so immeasureably and miles be-

miles

that the

feel

that (to use another

fact,

simile) the train of life travels with

acknowledge

fully

I

Old Europe

in

life

here;

life

one and

is

it

is

existence that flows through

both Continents.

By

virtue of our

of your bone,

common

origin,

yon may

you are

ive feel that

flesh of

and although you are outstripping us

in the

bone

call us

our

flesh,

most discou-

raging way, you will never forget that the historic cradle

wondrous youth stood

of your

was most gently rocked Moreover, besides another

ment of human this

the

It

regeneration

of even

face

claims

the

is

a

is

wider

interests

and

name.

of

human dates

for

love

life

our

me rests common

Rome

that the

you and

That crown

came

of our

is

forth;

in

a

still

hearts,

more

it

dispelled the clouds of sacerdotalism,

for

— that

mighty

is

special sense,

because

it

has

and has unveiled

again to fullest view the glories of the Cross.

deadly opposition to

it,

from Bethlehem and Golgotha;

the Reformation,

the

life

crown which ennobles

was not from Greece or

metamorphosis if

life,

noble crown of

Christian

heritage.

and

the

there

Far more precious to us than even the develop-

ours.

in

in

parentage,

would continue to unite your

difference,

and

once mighty Fatherland.

common

this

which,

factor

my

in

our old Europe, and

in

But, in

this Christian element, against the

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