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Constitutional Liberties.

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olution and

its

God

crimes.

671

judge them; but

will

in

the face

of guilt and judgment, a blessing was conferred upon

What had

Europe.

all

been refused at the hand of Calvinism,

was received with avidity at the hand of the French liberty heroes, and, however much Rome and the spirits of Restoration and of Romanticism sought re-establishment of the past, the nations of Europe would tolerate it no longer. Hence after the revolution of 1830, as well as after the revolution of 1848, the fruit of Calvinism was spared, at least in part.

Of Calvinism indeed. For what the French Revolution in its own strength, ask it of poor France, which,

wrought after

exhausting herself

for the

sake of a

battled through fourteen revolutions and

of state,

still

hurries on, with a So?

ttov crroi

on her

revolution could accomplish, ask

scourged so

pitilessly,

it

lips,

What

of liberty, which forever eludes her grasp.

in pursuit

been

^jlol

having

false idea,

worn out every form

of Spain, which has been

which from the zenith of her glory has

falling ever lower, until

now

pathy without rousing contempt

she can scarcely claim symalso.

And

for further tes-

timony, Mexico and Peru, Chile and Uraguay,

all of which model revolutionary republics, one of which even boasts would in the Phrygian cap on a dagger as her coat of arms comparison with the Union of the United States eloquently

—

are

—

express this difference.

But danger threatens our western before,

we

appreciate the

fruit

states also.

As

said

of the French Revolution.

According to God's plan, even in its sinfulness, it served This is no to advance the spread of Calvinistic liberties. cause for complaint, but rather for rejoicing. condition, however,

viz.,

Upon one

that the poisonous element which

it

introduced into Europe's state organism be not overlooked. It

did something

more than copy

Calvinistic liberties.

It in-

troduced a system likewise, a catechism and a doctrine, which, in

opposition to

God and

his righteousness,

loosened the

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