Calvinism a life-system - pagina 7

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

in

its

3

salutiferous influence

the storm of Modernism has

life,

now

arisen with violent intensity.

In 1789 the turning point was reached. Voltaire's

aimed

mad

Christ

at

expression

''Down with the scoundrel" was

cry,

but this cry was merely the

himself,

of the

most hidden thought from which

The

French Revolution sprang.

the

"We

another philosopher, odious

the

Convention,

which

shibboleth

— these

God, no Master",

were the

an emancipation from

all

means by which

of

the

watchwords

sacrilegious

Divine

wisdom,

in His impenetrable lution' as a

no more need a God", and

'•'•No

time heralded the liberation of

that

at

fanatic outcry of

Authority.

God employed

man

as

And

if,

that Revo-

tyranny

to overthrow the

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

who abused His the

nations as their footstool, nevertheless

Revolution remains thoroughly

of that

principle

and

anti-chrisiian,

has

and undermining

dissolving

spread

since all

that

a

like

cancer,

stood firm and

consistent before our Christian faith.

There

is

doubt than that Christianity

tio

by great and

Two

serious dangers.

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

term

IVeltaii

used the in

:hauung has no

litteral translation

English

is

limited

with physical nature.

of

this

me

that the shorter phrase

used

in

the

same

:

on the

observes, the

which connect

My

life systmi,

sense.

i)

are

Cki-istiait viezv

German

technical

He therefore

it

predominatingly

reason theni ore explicit phrase: life

'world view seems to be preferable.

often

imperilled

the world, notwithstanding this phrase

associations,

For

lectures

is

systems

precise equivalent in English.

vie-tv

by

life

and

Americans friends however told

on the other

side of the ocean,

is

So lecturing before an American public.

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