Calvinism - pagina 10

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

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name

Calvinist

name.

This

used

is

not

is

our t'm2»

in

tlie

as a sectarian

first

case in Protestant, but in

Roman

Hungary and France. In Hungary the Reformed Churches have a membership of some two and a-half millions, and in both the Romish and Jewish press of that country her members are constantly stigmatized by the non-official name of'^Calvinists", a derisive name applied even to those who have divested themselves of all traces of sympathy with the faith of their fathers. The same phenomenon presents Catholic

especially

countries,

in

France, especially in the Southern parts, where

itself in

•^Calviniste"

sectarian

equally,

is

and even more emphatically,

which does not

stigma,

refer to the faith

confession of the stigmatized person, but

a

or

simply put

is

upon every member of the Reformed Churches, even though he be an

propaganda, has

his anti-Semitic

the

anti-Calvinistic

Dreyfus-case,

him

the

as

'•'esprit

George Thiebaud, known

atheist.

spirit

and even

France,

in

two anti-national

In

exclusively as

— Directly this

the

of fore-ordination.

in the

prejudicial to the

forces,

opposed

to this

use of the word Calvinism, and this sional one.

same time revived

and Calvinists" were arraigned by

'•'Jews

gaulois".

at the

for

sense,

a

I

the confes-

call

Calvinist

is

the ^rr^;/*^

is

represented

outspoken subscriber to the dogma

They who disapprove

of this strong

attachment to the doctrine of predestination cooperate with

the

Romish

^'Calvinist",

narrowness

;

polemists,

in

that

by

calling

you

they represent you as a victim of dogmatic

and what

is

worse

to the real seriousness of moral

still,

life.

as being

This

dangerous

is

a stigma

so conspicuously offensive that theologians like Hodge,

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