Calvinism a life-system - pagina 99

CALVINISM AND RELIGION.

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the purchase of delight for the ear and the eye at the price

of such a moral hecatomb, the Calvinist,

human

whatever was

in

man

who honoured

for the sake of

God, could

not but condemn. Finally, so far as the dance

is

concerned, even worldly

like the Parisian '•'•Figaro^\ at

papers,

of the

position

present justify the

Only recently an

Calvinist.

article in

paper called attention to the moral pain with which

this

a father takes his daughter into the Ball-room for the time.

first

This moral pain,

Paris at least, to

all

who

are familiar with the whisper-

Dance

but exclusively, against

itself,

often in danger of leading.

the impurity to which

it

With this Our fathers

excellently well that

I

is

return to the barrier of which

perceived

those

in

Here, also, the Calvinist does not

pleasure-loving circles. protest against the

evident, in

is

and actions prevalent

looks

indecent

ings,

declared,

it

I

spoke.

was

it

just

these three: Dancing, Card-playing, and Theatre-going,

with which the circles trifles,

world was madly

these pleasures were not regarded as secondary

but

honoured as all-important matters:

whoever dared bitterest scorn

recognized, Calvinist

in

to attack them,

these

three, the

this

very reason, they

Rubicon which no true

could cross without sacrificing his earnestness

and the

from spotless pleasures.

not

fear of the

Lord

And now may

to often

I ask,

has

the result justified their strong and brave protest.^

"Even yet, after a lapse of three centuries, you in

and

exposed himself to the

For

and enmity.

to dangerous mirth, far

In worldly

in love.

my

States,

Calvinistic country, in Scotland,

entire social circles

into

which

and

in

will find,

your own

this worldliness

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