Calvinism a life-system - pagina 243

CALVINISM AND THE FUTURE. where

Roman-Catholic country,

first

239 the niglit of

in

Bartholomew and subsequently by the revocation

St.

of the edict of Nantes, the Huguenots had been slaught-

and

ered

banished.

Protestantism

After

countries,

the

cendency,

and to

Reformation had been Calvinism,

of

nations

these

by way of caricature

and compelled the attempt

invited

a pseudo-democratic state of

by meeting

revolution,

Thus

with

violence

strove after the

crime,

same

Calvinism had proclaimed among

By

a

in

rejoicing.

which

the nations, but which

course of a

in the

this the

French revoluof

God,

the

even to Calvinists, cause for

affords,

The shades

violence, crime

a judgment

executed

sense

of which

the French

social liberty

had been attempted by Calvinism purely spiritual movement.

result

to

which was to pre-

affairs,

clude for ever a return to despotism.

tion

as-

freedom by external violence and to establish

strike for

with

its

the fruits of the

all

This,

lost.

Roman-Catholic

had regained

despotism

ancient

suppression of

this violent

and other

France,

in

of

De Coligny were avenged

in

the September-murders of Mazas.

But

this is

discloses

only one side of the medal.

vinistic idea of liberty.

foundly

Its

reverse

a purpose directly opposed to the sound Cal-

serious

Calvinism by virtue of

conception

and consecrated the

of

and

social

life

had

its

pro-

strengthened

ethical ties; the

French

revolution loosened and entirely unfastened them, detach-

ing

life

not merely from the Church but also from God's

individual henceforth,

guided by his

own

Man as such, each own lord and master, and good pleasure. The train

God

ordinances, even from

Himself.

was to be

free will

his

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