Calvinism - pagina 48

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

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half of this century to the struggle of the Netherlands

against Spain,

one of the

as

only explains

gation,

finest subjects of investi-

by the

itself

conviction, that

if

the power of Spain at that time had not been broken

by the heroism of the Calvinistic spirit, the history of the Netherlands, of Europe and of the world would have been

Calvinism,

remarks that: "In Switzerland,

justly

thanks

now,

as

to

bright and inspiriting. Professor Fruin

is

it

and dark

sad

painfully

as

in

France, in the

Netherlands, in Scotland and in England, and wherever Protestantism has had to establish the sword, Call

was Calvinism that gained the day."

it

mind that

to

the point of

itself at

turn in the history of the

this

world could not have been brought about except by the implanting of another principle

by the

found

liberty

the

lips;

that

that its

heart,

by [Calvinism the psalm of

only

way from

the troubled conscience to

Calvinism has captured and guaranteed

and that simultan-

to us our constitutional civil rights;

with this there went out from Western

eously

and

of another world of thought to the

disclosing

human mind;

human

the

in

Europe

mighty movement which promoted the revival of

that

new avenues

science and art, opened beautified

trade,

and

domestic

to

social

commerce and exalted the

life,

middle classes to positions of honor, caused philanthropy to

and

and more than

abound,

ennobled

and then judge banish

for

any longer of

archives

dream

moral

to

history,

conceive

life

all

by

yourselves this

this,

seriousness;

puritanic

whether

it

will

Calvinism

God-given

and whether that

elevated, purified

it

is

so

do to

to

the

much

of a

Calvinism has yet a blessing

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