Calvinism - pagina 5

FIRST LECTURE.

CALVINISM A LIFE SYSTEM.

A

from the old European Continent, disem-

barking on the shore of this

New

World,

feels as

the

him

like

Psalmist says, that "his thoughts crowd upon

a multitude".

Compared with the eddying waters

your new stream of here,

how

on American ground, so

the

in

Hfe,

of

the old stream in which he

moving seems almost frostbound and

^/^ was

—

traveller

for the first time,

he

realizes

many

divine potencies, which were hidden

bosom

of

mankind from our very

and

dull;

away

creation, but

which our old world was incapable of developing, are now beginning to disclose their inward splendour, thus promising a

still

richer store of surprises for the Future.

You would not, however, ask meto forget the superiority which, in many respects, the Old World may still claim, in

your eyes, as well as

even

now

the bearer

in mine.

Old Europe remains

of a longer historical past,

therefore stands before us as a tree rooted

hiding between life.

You

its

more

deeply,

some more matured fruits of your Springtide, we are passing

leaves

are yet in

and

—

I

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