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Calvinism and

6/4

[Oct.

union and of thought, we will defend with all our might. We want the liberation of the church by an honest and absolute separation from the state,

its

finances included; liberation

from the school, not to restore it to the care of the church, but under state regulation to restore it to the parents, because the impersonal state cannot be a teacher of our youth.

We

want to strengthen the cords that bind our people to the house of Orange, provided there be maintained that republican character trait of our people, of which Orange itself is

We

both symbol and safeguard.

defend decentralization,

organic representation of the people, and moral colonial pol-

We

itics.

demand more

dependence

in

as for public defence, let

money on

countries, spend least erty, according to

common

for the

if,

in-

opinion,

is

even

Calvinistic

and

their armies,

if

be said that

it

Switzerland, England, and America, which are

And

more

administration of justice, even by a jury,

And

needs be.

liberty for our seminaries,

now

their lib-

best assured.

sake of this free programme and the

banner of Christian liberalism which we not that right, at least

in

part.

There

is

high, we we dispute

on

raise

are to be classed with the radicals of the Left,

some

truth in the

Joshua Davids. In the formal programme of oui social life, Fourier and St. Simon make near approaches Deramy understood it well: to the prophet of Nazareth.

lately published

the holy Apostle Paul it

is

also the apostle of democracy.

But

should not be overlooked that no two things resemble each

other so closely as the leaves on the true vine and the wild.

This

is

the case in hand.

If

our demands sound like

those of the most active radicalism, they bloom on roots altogether different from theirs. idem.

"We

Of the

Dno nun faciunt

expect everything of the

faith,

and of

this claim

faith,

idem, non est

they nothing."

we can make no

surrender.

and from the lessons of histories of We love our nearly three centuries we have learned that the faith alone contains vital power to guard and keep these liberties for us liberties,

and

for

our children unto latest generations.

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