Calvinism - pagina 7

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM. very Christian name, and against every sphere of

in

its

3

salutiferous influence

now

the storm of Modernism has

Hfe,

arisen with violent intensity.

In 1789 the turning point was reached. Voltaire's

aimed

mad

Christ

at

expression

but

himself,

this

"We

another philosopher,

odious shibboleth

the

Convention,

cry was merely the

most hidden thought from which

of the

The

French Revolution sprang.

the

was

cry, "-'Down with the scoundrel"

— these

fanatic outcry of

no more need a God", and

"No God, no

were the

Master",

the

of

watchwords

sacrilegious

which at that time heralded the liberation of

man

as

an emancipation from

And

if,

all

Divine

God employed

His impenetrable wisdom,

in

lution as a

Authority.

means by which

that Revo-

to overthrow the

tyranny

of the Bourbons, and to bring a judgment on the princes

who abused His the

of that

principle

and

anti-christian,

dissolving

nations as their footstool, nevertheless

Revolution remains thoroughly

has

spread

since

and undermining

all

that

like

a

cancer,

stood firm and

consistent before our Christian faith.

There

is

no doubt than that Christianity

by great and

Two

serious dangers.

As Dr. James Orr (in his valuable of God and the world, Edinb. 1897 p. 3) I)

life

lectures

is

systems

in

litteral translation viezv

English

is

limited

by

of

For

world view seems

be preferable.

me

to

that the shorter phrase

often

used in

the

same

this

:

observes, the

German

He

which connect

it

technical therefore

predominatingly

reason th^nT ore explicit phrase

My

life system,

sense.

are

the zvorld, notwithstanding this phrase

associations,

with physical nature.

i)

on the Christian view

term Weltanschauung has no precise equivalent in English. used the

imperilled

:

life

and

Americans friends however told

on the other

side of the ocean,

So lecturing before an American

is

public,

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