Calvinism a life-system - pagina 263

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

259

cism eradiates a fervour that warms the heart; and woe betide the giant of

are strangers to

dogma and

who

the hero of action,

God

depth and tenderness.

its

created

hand, head, and heart, the hand for the deed, the head

prophet

that

tianity

and

it

neglects

We

therefore

made

is

would be a sad taken by

air

mistake

to

be

accounted

Through

of spring.

and

deeper,

truer,

to

atmosphere envelopes

mystic

a

making us breathe the balmy life

man

priest in heart, shall

mystic element grows frigid

the are

whenever

deed,

in

stand before God, and a Chris-

office

congeals.

fortunate

and

profession,

in

threefold

his

in

us,

King

the word, the heart for mysticism.

for

But

richer.

suppose that mysticism,

can bring about a reversal in the

itself,

it

spirit

Not Bernard of Clairvaux but Thomas of Aquino, not Thomas a Kempis but Luther have ruled of the age.

of men.

the spirits

and

seclusive,

strives

outside world. tiated

live

take a

of the

What

is

and on

soul

flows

It

lies

this

in the indifferen-

account

it

lines

history proves that

worse,

cannot

along a subterranean

show sharply demarcated

degenerated

the practical and

above

all

one-

for

the is

its

mysticism, of the flesh

moral infamy.

rejoice in the revival of both

I

mystical tendencies, both will result

in loss instead of gain,

Mysticism

a

into

Accordingly, although

sate

very nature,

mysticism has always become morbid, and has

ultimately

/

in its

rather to avoid contact with the

astounding the world with

'

is,

very strength

stand.

does' not

ground. sided

Its

positive

bed and

Mysticism

if

they are expected to compen-

abandonment

of the

Truth of Salvation,

sweet and Christian works are precious.

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