Calvinism a life-system - pagina 209

CALVINISM AND ART.

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which laughs at the whispering of conscience, must

art

end

an unlovely discord quite different from what

in

the

Greeks

for

instance,

exalted

their

in

The

kalokagathos.

Calvinism arrayed

that

itself

fact,

against

all

unholy play with woman's honour, and stigmatized every form of immoral

enjoyment

artistic

therefore outside our scope.

lies

nounces the abuse, while with

question

the

lawful use of art

it

the

of

as a degradation,

All this properly de-

carries

no weight whatever

lawful

use.

And

that the

was not opposed, but encouraged and

even recommended, by Calvin himself, his own words readily

When

prove.

appearance

of

and

the harp

the Scripture mentions the first

in the tents of Jubal,

art,

organ,

Calvin

passage treats of "excellent

Spirit."

He

that

had enriched Jubal and ments.

And he

powers

of

clares,

in

things

are

According

of the natural

Holy Ghost.

the

In

all

Holy

God

to

to

life

endow-

inventive

of

testimonies

More emphatically

God and

Divine inventions." cious

evident

these

still,

commentaries on Exodus, that

his

come' from

arts

that

states

most

prove

art

of the

gifts

the artistic instinct

in

his posterity with rare

frankly

bounty.

Divine

the

invented

emphatically reminds us

that' this

declares

who

be

the

'•'all

respected

Calvin,

we owe

he de-

these

as

pre-

originally to

Liberal Arts, in the most as

well as in the least important, the praise and glory of

God

are to be enhanced.

The

arts,

says he, have been

given us for our comfort, in this our depressed estate 'of

life.

They

react against the corruption of

nature by the curse. at

When

life

his colleague. Prof.

Geneva, took up arms against

art,

and Cop,

Calvin purposely

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