“[Van Til in an undergraduate paper] challenged other interpretations that dismissed Calvinism as “merely a passing view of life” that inevitably gave way to higher forms of religious expression such as modernism. Though small and embattled in a hostile American context, Calvinism “embodies the eternal truth of God that must be the guide for men everywhere and through all ages.” To see it rise again, he challenged his Calvin [College]  classmates, “we should make the maxim of ora et labora once more part and parcel of ourselves. “Pray and work” were words that would become his credo well beyond his Calvin days” (John R. Muether, Cornelius Van Til: Reformed Apologist and Churchman, 46).