The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . OF A CHURCH. eminent in a cruel age. It could nothave originated in a democratic re-public, nor could it long maintain itsintegrity in an atmosphere of free in-quiry. Its fundamental principleswere diametrically opposed to thoseof Rome. The Catholic church said Believe.* Calvinism commanded Examine—Hold fast only to thatwhich is good. Undei the old faithman was made for the church, whichwas everything ; under the new thechurch was made for man ; he wasthe supreme value, and the church throne, come down to earth and. s
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . OF A CHURCH. eminent in a cruel age. It could nothave originated in a democratic re-public, nor could it long maintain itsintegrity in an atmosphere of free in-quiry. Its fundamental principleswere diametrically opposed to thoseof Rome. The Catholic church said Believe.* Calvinism commanded Examine—Hold fast only to thatwhich is good. Undei the old faithman was made for the church, whichwas everything ; under the new thechurch was made for man ; he wasthe supreme value, and the church throne, come down to earth and. suf-fer, bleed, and die for worthless, insisr-nificaut creatures of a day. The Calvinistic doctriue of an eternal hellled its inquiring believei towhether the pit with all its fiery hor-rors could have been created ju I Ipunish a mere worm of the dust. Ifman, even a sinner, deserve such anabode, surely the awful Sovereignof the Universe must think him acreature of great possibilities forgood or evil to banish him to itall eternity lor disobedience. Why, ? .- ? ? .. Od Log Churcn. was but an instrument to help creed taught him that he wascreated by an Infinite Power ; that hewas responsible to it alone, and itwould finally judge him. In thequaint language of Robert Brown, it made every one of the church aking, a priest, and a prophet underChrist to uphold and further thekingdom of God, and to break downand destroy the kingdom of anti-Christ and Satan. It admitted ofno hierarchy and denied the right ofany man or body of men to lord itover another. It could not be possi-ble, it led thinking men to say, thatthe. Son would leave his Fathers men came to inquire, if I am a per-son placed on this earth by an Infin-ite Power, have I not some rightswhich must be respected on earth andin heaven, too ? An infinite sacri-fice could have been made only forbeings a little lower than the an-gels. This supreme offering, thePresbyterian said, was for me ; I amresponsible for rejecting i
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