Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . eneration of reformers, andthat he learned the Protestant faith from Luther. But he becamefor the peoples of Western Europe what Luther was for Germany,and he gave his own peculiar type of Protestantism — that typewhich was congenial to his disposition and experience — to Switzer-land, to France, to the Netherlands, to Scotland, and through theDutch, the English Puritans, and the Scotch Presbyterians, to largeportions of the New World. Calvin, to be sure, is not widely popu-lar to-day even in those lands which owe him most, for he ha
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . eneration of reformers, andthat he learned the Protestant faith from Luther. But he becamefor the peoples of Western Europe what Luther was for Germany,and he gave his own peculiar type of Protestantism — that typewhich was congenial to his disposition and experience — to Switzer-land, to France, to the Netherlands, to Scotland, and through theDutch, the English Puritans, and the Scotch Presbyterians, to largeportions of the New World. Calvin, to be sure, is not widely popu-lar to-day even in those lands which owe him most, for he hadlittle of that human sympathy which glorifies the best thought andlife of the present age; but for all that, he has left his mark uponthe world, and his influence is not likely ever to be wholly out-grown. His emphasis upon Gods holiness made his followers scrupu-lously, even censoriously pure; his emphasis upon Gods will madethem stern and unyielding in the performance of what they believedto be their duty; his emphasis upon Gods majesty, paradoxical. JOHN CALVIN.
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