The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-02-11

from the text, St. John, 18th chapter,
10th verse. Sand Jesus said unto her
Said not unto thee that if thou wouldesi
believe thou shouldest see the glory oil
God"
This language, as you will doubtless
remember, was applied to Martha when
she had lost her brother. These sayings,
however, are intended for the spiritual
appetites of men and women in all ages.
Christ often made some comment on an
apparently trivial case which has since
come to be recognized as a great and
grand truth. The death of Lszsrus is
not only historical, but so are Mary and
Martha, and their names will live long
alter those of the great have been for
gotten.
This dictum is of universal applicable
lty. Sight is to the body what pure
mind is to the soul. We can intellectu-
ally see God only as we believe. Only
as faith exists can we obtain deep and
full knowledge of God.
Yet whether we have reference to high
moral or spiritual action, we must allow
that it cannot be had without faith.
With many, knowledge, which comes
from pure intellec:, is thought TO be SUI
feisnt, but little dispassionste thought
will show that in high branches OF
thought we must have faith.
Knowledge is always dependant upon
faith. The child gains knowledge as to
how to walk only By having faith in its
own power, and it is thus in al things.
Faith must be had or problems of diff
cult nature can never be solved. 1t is
only as the astronomer believes that
there is space IN which other worlds exist
tina. he spends his nights IN hourly search
for new discoveries in lonely companion
ship with his telescope. Only as men
believe and have faith will they see the
glory Of God, no matter in what
direction their sight is turned. We do
not believe that any philosophy which
will shut out God will ever take deep
hold on the mind of man. and yet some
of the human race do {. acknowledge 8
God existing in the world of matter.
That he does exist is taught by human
reason and is philosophical rs well as
holy truth. Those who scott have
never penetrated deep enough into the
heart of nature 70 see her wonderous
workings, which in their workings show
the presence of grea. all-ruling God.
This is too large fact for them TO grasp,
for their intellect must be guided by
faith. The intellect demands first
cause and final end, and by the one it
discovers the other, and it is faith only
that thus discloses natures God. The
intellect with faith, will rise higher and
higher, until at last it discovers Gcd in
nature, and will find there is no nature
without God. With intellect alone, he will
sever penetrate into the heart Of history
and find the true power which is behind
the thrones of Kin.s. He alone will
discover the inner heart of ecclesiastical,
political and social history, who has
faith. Man must not alone have mere
intellectual belief in Gods Book, but he
must have deeper, holier, frmer faith,
which rules him totally in all things.
You can never rise in any true knowl-
edge unless you stand upon the
pedestal Of faith. That simple state
ment of Christ, rs you can now
see, has a wide and great application.
With faith, my dear brethren, yea can
see God in physical nature, in the Bible,
IN history, in the human mind, and in
all things which appertaln TO the world
below.
The choir rendered the musical por-
ton of the services in superb manner,
and showed itself to be worthy of its rep
utation in the past.