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CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

22

But

confession.

very really implied a

of course

this

fundamental and special interpretation of our relation

God.

to

was

be considered as a hostile poiver^ yea even as

to

dead,

was the declaration that henceforth God

It

not yet to the heart, at least to the

if

and

society

to

To be

science.

sure,

state, to

passing from

in

French into German hands. Modernism could not content with such a bare negation

how from

that

moment

but the result shows

;

clothed

it

God from

practical

main-

it

and theoretical

and the enmity against the Triune God had

Hfe,

pan-

in either

itself

theism or agnosticism, and under each disguise tained the expulsion of

rest

its full

course.

Thus

maintain that

I

is

it

the interpretation of our

God which dominates

relation

to

system,

and that

for us

Calvinism, thanks to

this

To

this I

nor conceived

God its

if

you

it

like,

upon the

altar

remind one of Calvin.

Calvin

Was

man

no product of a clever

this

work of God

in

an inspiration of history.

with

of genius, it

it

scarcely

a wall at

intel-

the heart,

This point

has calls

them by

Geneva remains

even

By no in

the

means. i6th

its

erected no

His very grave has been

ingratitude?

was appreciated,

and

Calvinism has never burned

monument for its heroes, name. One stone only in gotten.

of

in the hearts of its heroes

face here

should be emphasized. incense

man and

fundamental interpretation, but that

lectualism, but the fruit of a or,

given in

is

add that Calvinism has neither invented

this

We

life

fundamental interpretation of an

its

himself implanted

heralds.

general

conception

immediate fellowship of God with

God.

every

to

for-

But

if

and 17th

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