Calvinism a life-system - pagina 167

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE. fury

of wild beasts.

doing damage can

subject

can

make

it

behind bars; 2". he

by taming it; and 3*^. he by domesticating it, e. g.^ by originally wild dog and cat into In a similar manner God by His

to

his

will

attractive

it

transforming

domestic

can prevent the beast from

by putting

i*^.

it

Man

163

the

animals.

"common

grace" restrains the operation of sin in man, by breaking its power, partly by taming his evil and partly by domesticating his nation or his family.

partlyspirit,

Common

grace has thus led to the result that an ungen-

may

erated sinner is

lovely

and

captivate

and

of energy,

full

by much that

attract us just

as

our

domestic

animals do, but this of course after the manner of man.

The it

,

nature

of

This

was.

sin,

remains as venomous as

however,

seen in the cat, which, brought back

is

to the woods, returns to

its

former wild state after two

generations,

and a similar experience has been made

with regard

human nature, just now, in Armenia He who reads an account of the massacres

and Cuba. of

to

Bartholemew

St.

horrors

easily

inclined

to'

but

behold!

our

he who has

read

and

cities

in

Armenia.

a description of the cruelties

committed by the Spaniards villages

in

nineteenth century has

surpassed these horrors by the massacres

And

place these

account of the low state of culture

to ,the

those days,

is

in the i6th

century

in

the

of the Netherlands against defenceless

women and children, and then heard the news what occurred now in Cuba, cannot help acknow-

old men,

of

ledging

been

that,

repeated

what was a disgrace in

the 19th century.

in

the i6th, has

Where

evil

not come to the surface, or does not manifest

does

itself in

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