Calvinism - pagina 278

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

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SO sadly weakened

been basely and cravenly abandoned

,

to the fate of assassination

?

Has not the Greek been crushed

by the Turk, while Gladstoae, the a

politically

courage

Calvinist

brand

to

Sultan

the

among

departed from

brace us

the

the

for

the

has

Accordingly radical deter-

us?

desired

Assassin",

'•''Great

mination must be insisted upon.

guarantee

who had

very core,

the

to

Christian statesman,

result.

Half-measures cannot Superficiality

not

must again bear

Principle

conflict.

will

witness against principle, world-view against world-view, spirit

against

better

speak,

And

spirit.

but

for

I

here,

him who knows

let

one know of no stronger and

no firmer bulwark than Calvinism, provided in

its

it

be taken

sound and vigorous formation.

And

you

if

enough

to

expect

reversal

in

the

lowing

my

from men

:

from

certain

Christian

am

really naif

I

studies

Calvinistic

world-view, then be the

The quickening

answer: it is

mockingly,

retort, half

of

it is

due to His

sovereign will alone, whether or not the tide of religious rise

life

high in one century, and run to a low ebb in the

next. spring, again,

the

In

when

Now

moral world, all

cold

the

congeals, and

is

fol-

comes not

life

the prerogative of God, and

a

the

all

is

we have

one time,

at

budding and rustling with

of winter, religious

period

too,

in

when every

energy

is

vital

life,

and

stream

petrified.

which we are living

at present,

surely at a low ebb religiously.

Unless

God send

no turn, and waters.

forth

His

Spirit,

there

will

be

fearfully rapid will be the de.scent of the

But you remember the Aeolian Harp, which

men were wont

to

place outside their casement, that

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