Show CALVIN TIlE THE REFORMER IS SUBJECT OF SERMON Lessons from the life of John Calvin the reformer were interestingly anci and anCl aptly drawn by the Rev Kev C. C C. C McIntyre at the Westminster Presbyterian church A d i riu Th The life 1 tf V work n ork o nf of fa Calvin in h.-in I vi n I A d i riu Th The life 1 tf V work n ork o nf of fa Calvin in h.-in I vi n yester yesterday ay formed the gut gist of the sermon It follows fol Lol- Lol lows in part Calvin is and has bas been grievously ie mi misunderstood The Tho greatness r s of his work ork has met with serious perversion so that with the unlearned Galvanism is synonymous for foreordination pre pre- pre pre- desti destination na tion This p popular misconception is due largely to the unfair treatment of his work by by a few earl early writers and the reputation is sustained today by editors who ho catering to the public public pub pub- lic Hc have hat space enough h when they quote to give only those sections which deal with the two subjects Wh Why do such and editors print sections so profound in reason and so 50 beautiful in iu expression and soil so o fresh fresh in modern thought as for instance the chapter on Tho The Guidance and Teaching I of the Scripture Necessary to Lead Lear to the he Knowledge of God the Creator or Everything E That Proceeds From the Corrupt Nature of Man an Worthy of Condemnation Con Con- detonation or Faith Defined and J its ts Properties Described or The sum Simm- mary nary of the Christian I Life ife or On On Christian Libert Prayer or Liberty Calvin a Recluse A ain it is ed that Again ur urged Calvin was wasa I a a. sort of recluse w who o lived out of touch with men and therefore did not understand understand under under- stand stanel humanity sufficiently to treat our nature properly and therefore his work exalts God at the expense of man It Itis Itis Its I is s true that Calvin had the blood and training raining of a scholast but never did he ho waste dialectical power meditating on foolish and irrelevant qU questions But Buthe Buthe he ie turned all the glow of his intellect upon the tho Jive live and practical questions of man and out of his own experiences and out of his own Bible produced what history has proved to be DO the most adequate adequate ade ade- quate livable doctrines of insoluble mysteries as ae well wen as of the known facts of God and of life As As the theologian Calvin gathered up the principles and doctrines of Christianity and put them in a form that hat has for 3 years rears ears remained to all purposes fixed and a abiding a system that hat shaped the thought of western Europe Eu Eu- rope rope England England Scotland in tho the sixteenth six six- century and is one of the stron strongest strong est eat schools o of ol theology in the world Inthe in inthe the he t |