Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-06
EUMAN FAITH.

Written for the SUNDAY UNION. by Edith vars
Human Faith-one of the strongest ele-
nasnts that go to make man the higher
animal. Faith in man to man, and that
INDISPENSABLE something that uuconsciousIv
relies on the originator And TO each Of
US, mutually, and individually, is intrusted
the care of the rich, full, yet delicate
flower in early childhood Rich and full
ITS profusion extended to all, ere it receives
one OF the many blights scattered through
our short span of life. How tender should
be our care of that left in our keeping. and
which fairly lost is never regained.
Does the mother ever stop to auaIyze
the disappointed, surprised and wit6all
puzzled look on the baby face lifted to her
when AZ the completion of some act Of
obedience she laughingly and thought
leSSly refuses the promised reward Or
realize that then, in her baby's mind. she
has Sown the first seed Of "distrust !" To
flourish with weed-like persistencv, side by
side with Faiths flower, through life. We
are each responsible for the faith placed in
us by another. Were we each as careful
of the keeping of confidence placed in us
by loved ones as we think we are of their
love, there would be fewer heartaches.
How strangely Faith and Love are inter
twined. Yet not equally dependent on
each other, for while we NAV have con-
tidence in one without loving in the deep
est sense, yet how impossible for Love TO
thrive when Faith has fled.
The once loved one IN whom we have
lost the faith we placed in their keepius.
after the act which forfeits our confidence.
never again here possesses the pure, sweet
love that stood Joined with our faith and
which Is now only comparatively feeble
flame, existing not because We think the
object worthy, but because it is part of
nature.
As one, from many and variety of in
stances of faith destroyed, we watch the
picture of fond wife, happy in a husbands
love and confidence, which she had never
abused, looking down and counting the
long life-way before her like some bright
dream, when 10! all darkens and She
slowly realizes demon is surely stealing
hlm-her husband-from her, to be left at
last the battered plaything of drink; yet
her love, mistaken, bears in pity and grief
with him, who is too weak to forsake his
udbll, even lot HeT.
One bright day hope dawns anew for the
true, patient wife for has he not promised
by the love he plighted her to assert his
manhood, and that never again shall drink
stain his lips? Then her JOY, and even
pride, returns with double force. Does
she doubt his word? No, never once !!
She is happy in her dream;
and not until the dark clouds of his
weakness lower and break in sudden an
guish over her head, as he staggers home
again to her, carrying his double dishonor.
does her faith waver once: which, even
lettering in its stand, clings on until
few more tests and it flies to be henceforth
a stanger there, leaving behind love I'M
protected and slowly abandoning its sway
to duty.
Have we all an Unborn faith in
the God who made US? 1t seems SC
when we look at the being without a
creed of any kind, when in some second.
of terrible, threatening anguish his fir5S
call is on something higher and mightier
than the danger he faces; a cry to-he
hardly knows what That is surely a
latent faith uncultivated, and something
entirely different, in that moment Of
terror, from the passive feeling he ordi-
narily possesses in common with the
lower animal, that he is without imme-
date danger.
Faith-strange combination of the ten
der and strong, and what needful ele-
ment in the happiness of our life and
eternity