Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-04-07
SUNDAY READING.

truths, and there are great truths III religion
rs well as other matters, ought to have place
N the thought Of the day. a man whether
ne is a Christian or not, ought to know in
Christian land what Christian Faith is ''If
tho story of Christi life and death be true, it
gives new coloring to all life and effort 1t
avs downright work on a man. There is a
course of duty before him, plain road laid
,ut for him to travel He could not have
found it for himself On the whole, the
world, visible and tangible, does not tell him
hat sin is his ruin. Looking ut that, j. seems
Il ii wrong aMd lies were very often the road
% success and deliverance The visible world
puts cheats upon him He sees the bad man
prosper, the good man in great trihulHtjon.
He sees successful fraud, pros porous injustice,
profitable wrong For this day and the next,
for this year and the next, the bad thing
seems to conquer tho good thing, the lie
seems better than the truth. His SENSES amt
his worldly knowledge appear to tell him that
salvation, prosperity, happiness, and success
may be, in this world, aAd for this time, at
least, won by evil and falschood The devil
ioe5 seem to be master and king here, how
over it may he in other worlds and other
ages. And hoyo comes the Gospel, announce
ing the direct reverse of all his senses tell
him. 1t comes, declaring that all these APP
poarances Of successful and profitable evil are
5nly cheating phantons of q passing day,oniy
the exceptional and disappearing shadows of
AL hour. Ii declares that, let the world ap
poar as it will, sin cannot be successful, wrong
cannot be profitable, lios cannot be good. Il
proclaims that God IS King here too, thu, sin
is accursed in this world, as i. is in all WORLDS
Il contradlcts the fleeing Appearances of anna,
and proclaIms, on earth, the everlasting laws
of God = eternal kingdom, that SIN IS ruin.
that wrong is forever death, chat hes are ever
moro destruction to all Gods creatures 1t
cries over all the world that in this rebel
realm, az in the very white heavens Of God, |
the sole salvation and peace for any child Of
the King is, that he put himself IN conscious |
and avowed hostility-in sworn cnmity and |
deadly hatr0d-to every sin, 10 every wrong !
TO every lie, as against Gods nature and |
the very Son Of God himself came here on |
earth to proclaim, III the miGt OF all its delu-
SONS, the law Of heaven as the one unchang-
ing and everlasting law of lie for every re-
sponsiblc creature of His Father. Aud here
is Faith. The man that believes this an
uouncement has Faith He accepts it as
something from above the world. 1t arises,
not from human experience, but from Divine
revelation. 1t appeals, not to his sight, but
to his insight; not to his experience, but to
his spirit, his higher reason. 1t is q truth
from d sphere beyond. 1t comes to him as
belonging to eternity, and not to time; as be-
longing to heaven, and not to earth. If he
accept it, he must accept it by Faith, and not
10y sight Its acceptance runs to the roots of
life. That is clear 1t reversos his whole
view Of the world, and of his own business i'll
the world, 1t changes the color of the entire
universe. 1t puts another face on all his
days. 1t lets down here about him the white
light of heaven, and tells him to walk by that,
and not by the falsehoods Of sense, If he
zee fraud profitable, it declares he shall be- ,
ieve it unproitabIe notwithstanding II he ]
ace wrong triumphant, it tells him to deny his |
eyes, and hold to the last that wrong is {
ruinous. If he see sin pleasant ana the
source OF happiness, it insists that he shall c
his eyes and senses, and hold sin a
bitter and vile and the one source of endless t
misery and woe, now and always This world,
{ tells him. is an exceptional world the one h
ebel realm i'll all Gods vast universe, He 9
must understand it 50. He must therefore a
walk by the law, and not by the exception.
lie must live here, not on the principles of il
he realm that has rebelled but on those of
he grand whole which has not rebeled, ii
1here Gods eternal law of right and truth k
nd love rules in power. If he accept this
tory, he has Faith we say. He can accept al
only by Faith. Observation and knowl- 81
dge would never have taught it. The peo- tc
10 round him never could have told him 1t s
! brought to him from above, and he must II
elieve it on trust Now, if ho accept it to "
ct on it, it is saving Faith. If his reception
I the announcement be so strong and so X
earty that he, seeing salvation is an entirely Ell
ractical matter, prepares to act on these di
,cts and principles, and sets about working, as
Ding, and living, then he has Faith which IN
iVcs him. For his salvation consists in