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The Curse Should No Longer Rest Upon The World Itself, But Upon That Which Is Sinful In It, And Instead Of Monastic Flight From The World The Duty Is Now Emphasized Of Serving God In The World, In Every Position In Life.

Lutheranism Restricted Itself To An Exclusively Ecclesiastical And Theological Character, While Calvinism Put Its Impress In And Outside The Church Upon Every Aspect Of Human Life.

Unchecked, The Dominating Influences Of Money And Of Barren Intellectualism Would Reduce The Life Of Emotions To Freezing Point. And, Unable To Grasp The Holier Benefits Of Religion, The Mysticism Of The Heart Reacts In The Art-intoxication. .... In This Cold, Irreligious And Practical Age The Warmth Of This Devotion To Art Has Kept Alive Many Higher Aspirations Of Our Soul, Which Otherwise Might Readily Have Died, As They Did In The Middle Of The Last Century.

We Understand Hereby, That The Family, The Business, Science, Art And So Forth Are All Social Spheres, Which Do Not Owe Their Existence To The State, But Obey A High Authority Within Their Own Bosom; An Authority Which Rules, By The Grace Of God, Just As The Sovereignty Of The State Does.

Whatever Man May Stand, Whatever He May Do, To Whatever He May Apply His Hand - In Agriculture, In Commerce, And In Industry, Or His Mind, In The World Of Art, And Science - He Is, In Whatsoever It May Be, Constantly Standing Before The Face Of God. He Is Employed In The Service Of His God. He Has Strictly To Obey His God. And Above All, He Has To Aim At The Glory Of His God.