Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . ion, the marks they have set on social and NEWSPAPERS, PHILANTHROPIES, CHURCH UNITY. 363 political institutions wherever the Protestant faith pre-vails, from the country of John Knox to the country ofJonathan Edwards, we cannot but see that, comparedwith Calvin, not in capacity of intellect, but in power ofgiving formal shape to a world, Hobbes and Cromwellare hardly more than names writ in water. Prof. John Fiske, of Harvard University, speakingof Puritan Theocracy in its relation to civil liberty,say
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . ion, the marks they have set on social and NEWSPAPERS, PHILANTHROPIES, CHURCH UNITY. 363 political institutions wherever the Protestant faith pre-vails, from the country of John Knox to the country ofJonathan Edwards, we cannot but see that, comparedwith Calvin, not in capacity of intellect, but in power ofgiving formal shape to a world, Hobbes and Cromwellare hardly more than names writ in water. Prof. John Fiske, of Harvard University, speakingof Puritan Theocracy in its relation to civil liberty,says : It would be hard to overrate the debt of civilliberty which mankind owes to Calvin. Calvinism leftthe individual man alone in the presence of his was a religion fit to inspire men who were to becalled upon to fight for freedom, whether in the marshesof the Netherlands, or on the moors of church tends to become an independent con-gregation of worshipers, constituting one of the mosteffective schools that has ever existed for training- menfor local SEAL OK THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, ADOPTEDAT PORTLAND, ORE., l8g2. CHAPTER XVI. REVISION OF THE CONFESSION OF FAITH. NO denomination of Christians enjoys perfect freedomin the selection and shaping of its own mission inthe world. The tasks to which a denomination is calledare largely assigned to it by the providence of God andthe struggles and studies of its own people. Successin religion, as in every other human enterprise, is rarelyattained, unless those who are engaged in it have beforethem a clear conception of their peculiar providentialmission. Presbyterianism in America has, in the past,been set to maintain an educated ministry, a logicallycoherent system of doctrine, a religious life in its mem-bers consecrated to home and foreign mission work, andto earnest evangelical movements in the large citiesand in the older settlements. The Presbyterian Churchhas never established a board for the
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