Calvinism - pagina 40

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

6 of

Western

Europe.

flourished in the days

Israel

If

of Babylon and Egypt, however high direction

not in

its

standard, the

and the development of our human race was hands

the

of the

sons

of

Abraham

those of the Belshassars and the Pharaohs.

to Israel but to Greece

Again, this

and Rome.

stream of Christianity had risen appearance,

the issue of the world.

Romanism

However high the when Islam made its

the 8th and 9th centuries the followers

in

Mahomet were our

teachers and with them rested

And

maintained

still

though the hegemony of

itself for

a short time after

peace of Munster, no one questions the

the

the higher development, which

owe

in

does not pass from Babylon and Egypt on

leadership

of

but

neither

Germany

we

are

now

fact,

that

enjoying,

we

to Spain nor to Austria, nor even to the

of that time, but to the Calvinistic countries

of the Netherlands and to

England of the 1 6th century.

Under Louis XIV, Romanism arrested this higher development in France, but only that in the French Revolution it

might exhibit a ghastly caricature of Calvinism, which

its

in

sad consequences broke the inner strength of France

as a nation,

and weakened

The fundamental from

Holland

its

international significance.

idea of Calvin has been transplanted

and

England to America, thus driving

our higher development ever more Westward, the shores of the Pacific

ever

God

the

future

that

has ordained.

may

it

now

until

on

reverently awaits whatso-

But no matter what mysteries

yet have to disclose, the fact remains

the broad stream of the development of our race

runs from Babylon to San Francisco, through the five stadia of Babylonian-Egyptian,

Greek-Roman,

Islamitic,

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