Faith is the work of God's grace in us . No man can say that Jesus is the Christ but by the Holy Ghost . So that faith , which is coming to Christ , is the result of divine drawing . Grace is the first and last moving part of the machinery which grace employs. What glad tidings for the undeserving.
Faith occupies the position of a channel or conduit pipe .
It is a great pity when the aqueduct is broken. It is a sad sight to see around Rome the many noble aqueducts which no longer convey water into the city, because the arches are broken and the marvelous structures are in ruins. Still, I again remind you that faith is only the channel or aqueduct, and not the fountain head, and we must not look so much to it as to exalt it above the divine source of all blessing which lies in the grace of God . Never make a Christ out of your faith, nor think of it as if it were the independent source of your salvation. Grace is the locomotive engine , and faith is the chain by which the carriage of the soul is attached to the great motive power .