Scotland was the name in Europe above all others in which
Calvinism became most firmly entrenched . . . [I]n no other land did Calvinism effect so tremendous a change in the
national character and the national destiny.
Calvinism transformed the Scots.
In the Middle Ages they were a notoriously rough and disorderly people
who preferred to raid rather than to raise cattle . . . The Reformation changed all that. The Scots were to become a different people
and the alteration was effected by the new kirk armed with the Book of
Discipline.
-The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Bainton, Roland H. (Englarged Edition 1985), pages 178 and 179. (Google has the book here, but less pages 183-248.)
I would venture the speculation that Reformed Christianity in China has been working a similar transformation since the 19th Century. Would that God again open the Middle East to the Gospel.
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