The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 25

INTRODUCTORY NOTE. By prof, benjamin Of It

is

Kuyper

WARFIELD,

B.

D.D.. LL.D.,

Princeton Theological Seminary.

fortunately no longer necessary formally to introduce Dr. to the

American

religious public.

Quite a number of his

remarkable essays have appeared of late years in our periodicals. These have borne such titles as " Calvinism in Art," " Calvinism the " Source and Pledge of Our Constitutional Liberties," Calvinism and Confessional Revision." "The Obliteration of Boundaries," "The Antithesis between Symbolism and Revelation "; and have appeared in the pages of such publications as Christian Thought, Bibliotheca Sacra, The Presbyterian

and Reformed Review— not, we may be sure,

without delighting their readers with the breadth of their treatment and the high and penetrating quality of their thought. The columns of The Christian Ititelligencer have from time to time during the last year been adorned with examples of Dr. Kuyper's practical

and now and again a brief but illuminating discussion of a topic of present interest has appeared in expositions of Scriptural truth

the columns of The Independent.

;

The

appetite whetted by this taste

good things has been partially gratified by the publication in English of two extended treatises from his hand one discussing in a singularly profound way the principles of " The Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology" (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898), and the other expounding with the utmost breadth and forcefulness the fundamental principles of " Calvinism " (The Fleming H. Revell Company, The latter volume consists of lectures delivered on " The 1899). L. P. Stone Foundation," at Princeton Theological Seminary in the autumn of 1898, and Dr. Kuyper's visit to America on this occasion

of

—

brought him into contact with

many

lovers of high ideas in

Amer-

and has left a sense of personal acquaintance with him on the minds of multitudes who had the good fortune to meet him or to

ica,

hear his voice at that time.

upon Dr. Kuyper

It is

impossible for us to look longer

as a stranger, needing an introduction to our fa-

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