Calvinism a life-system - pagina 277

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE.

and gaining day by day

Do

?

not forget that the fun-

damental contrast has always been, until the

still,

and

So

far there is

a deeply

truth in

felt

future

but Christ has

;

prophesied to us on Patmos the approach of a

in

last

and

and even now Japan's gigantic deve-

conflict,

lopment

be

drawn by the German Emperor, Buddhism as the coming enemy. A

drawn curtain hides the

bloody

will

picture

drastic

representing closely

is

end: CJirisiianity and Paganism, the idols or

the living God.

the

273

than

less

forty

years

has

filled

Europe

with fear for what calamity might be in store for us

from

the

cunning "yellow

human

proportion of the

Chinese soldiers,

testify that his

Taipings,

the

most splendid

if

Asiatic question

is

fact of

in

find

its

final

made The The

in

Asia

most serious import. rise in Asia,

its

solution

and material development,

?

officered,

he ever commanded

soldiers

problem of the world took will

forming so large a

And did not Gordon with whom he defeated

only well drilled and

the

it

race"

family.

and

and, both in technical

;

the

issue

has .shown that

heathen nations, as soon as they awake, and arise from their lethargy, rival us almost instantly.

Of

course this danger would be far less menacing in

case Christendom

stood

united

,

both the old and the new world,

in

around

praise to their King,

the

Cross,

and ready

shouting songs

as in the

days of the days

of the crusades to advance to the final conflict. But

when pagan

thought,

gaining ground even

pagan

aspirations,

of

pagan

how

ideals are

among us and penetrating to the very Have not the Armenians, just

heart ofthe rising generation?

because the conception of Christian solidarity has become 18

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