Pantheism's destruction of boundaries - pagina 35
Methodist lievieic.
any one thing is able to than we luis battled for that, in spite of such illtlie surprising fact it is our people but has grown strength has not waned, resistance, our directed tliis
stiifu
:if(:iiii.st
Aiul
unbelief.
One
8tren<rtlien our faith that
if
i'reater
intensely stronger.
We
have notliing to say of the doctrinaire. God be praised echoes have died away of the hollow phrases whereby self-sulKciency deemed itself able to vanquish a Strauss, to !
tlie last
stu[)id
Xuenen out of the fight. These were the scoffing bulletins of the princeling who gathered bullets at Wissembourg, the boastful call of men utterly ignorant of the enemy, both in his earnestness and in the strength of And, as it always lia])pen8 with the boastful his weapons. pride of cowards, of the ten who protested then so loudly perhaps eight now appear among the leaders in infidelity. No, when we consider what resistance has been offered we refer not to that ineffectual skirmishing, but rather to the earnest threefold effort put forth to save the threatened ]iosition, whereby men gathered under the banner of the apologist, the compromiser, or the amphibian. Apologetics have first been tried. As often as the outworks were attacked the defenders of Christian truth hastened to the breach to answer each shot from the enemy with a ball from their own cannon. AYliercver the enemy showed himself they disarm a Darwin, and to drive a
Though
crept after him in trenches.
ing heads they
often repulsed with bleed-
held firm, and, with a sturdy patience
still
which compels' respect, lance crossed lance, dagger sharpened dagger, and blow followed blow. But, in spite of this defense, they gained nothing for on the heels of one host of objections, winch were upheld for a moment at the most, another army of still heavier critical grievances loomed uj) at once. Meanwhile ;
enemy to prescribe the plan of campaign, consequence into hopeless confusion, and in the end
they permitted the fell
in
were cut
off
from
their
own
basis of operation.
table course of that apologetic resistance is well tic militia
measured
itself
against a Prussian guard.
the endless series of concessions, lost the fire of his
eye and
all
The lamen-
known.
And
A rushenco
at length the bravest
hero courage from his weary heart in till
the grief of disai>p(>intment.
No
wonder, therefore,
that, in
view of
this sad spectacle,
our
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Bekijk de hele uitgave van zondag 1 januari 1893
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 44 Pagina's
Bekijk de hele uitgave van zondag 1 januari 1893
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 44 Pagina's