Calvinism a life-system - pagina 189

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE. the question,

which

if

enabled

1

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the courage, the perseverance, the energy,

them

win their

to

suit at last,

will

be

now in a still higher degree, with Christian scholars. May God grant it! You cannot, nay, you even may found

not think of

it,

from yours,

That

the press.

everything that

they, from their standpoint pull

is

holy

in

your estimation,

is

down

unavoidable.

of seeking relief for your scientific conscience

Instead in

deprive him, whose consciousness differs

of freedom of thought, of speech and of

downhearted complaints, or

unconfessional work,

in

mystic feeling, or in

the energy and the thoroughness

of our antagonists must be

by every

felt

as a sharp incentive himself also to

renew

principles in his thinking, to

Christian scholar

go back

to his

own

all scientific investi-

gation on the hnes of these principles, and to glut the If we conwe may without

press with the burden of his cogent studies.

ourselves

sole

with the thought, that

danger leave secular science nents,

we only succeed

if

be the

on

fire,* is

better,

and

when he asked

after all

single

permeated by

-wherein shield.

is

it.

As

your eyes

so

the rest of the house

Calvin long ago

many

knew

a PJiilosophia Christiana,

for

more or

of principles,

in shutting

confine yourself to the

every faculty, and in these

science,

antithesis

when

indeed.

foolish

the hands of our oppo-

To

tactics of the ostrich.

saving of your upper room, is

in

in saving theology, ours will

less

faculties

connected

every

with

the

and should consequently be

little

may you

seek your safety

to the actual conditions of things,

Christians

imagine they find a safe

Everything astronomers or geologists, physicists

or chemists,

zoologists

or bacteriologists, historians or

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