Calvinism - pagina 264

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

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but the seed of the church, both at the birth of Chris-

and

tianity

age of the Reformation has been the

in the

blood of martyrs; and our sainted martyrs shed their

blood not for mysticism and not for philanthropic projects, but for the sake of convictions such as concerned the

To

acceptance of the truth and the rejection of error. with consciotisness

man's well-nigh divine prerogative,

is

and only from the

unobscured vision of conscious-

clear

word

ness proceeds the mighty

reverse

their

of the world.

only

self-deception,

Christians life

It

when

and world-view of

out

Truths

Reformation, the

how

far

the

in

and

these practical and mystical

do without

can

their

own.

No

a

Christian

one can do with-

Every one who thinks he can abandon the

that.

Christian

of

the times

self-deception, therefore,

is

they

believe

make

that can

and cause a revolution

current,

spirit

live

and do away with the Catechism of

lends

modern

unawares

ear

world-view

the

to

hypotheses

without

and,

knowing

he has drifted already, swears by the Catechism

of Rousseau and Darwin.

Therefore every

plant

us

let

not

as

mental principle

;

and

ideas

and conceptions that go

With such its

latter

is

root in a funda-

developed

logi-

the whole complex of ruling

cally

resting on

common

and from the

systematically

These principles arc

life.

interconnected and have their

firmly

trul\-

has a root, so truh' does a principle hide

under every manifestation of

world-view.

As

half-way.

stop

to

make up our

a coherent world

principle

and

and

life

and

life-view,

self-consistent in

its

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