The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1902-02-20
BISHOP MORRISON
breaches ON FAITH,
Sunday Morning At rIeth-
OdiSt Church to a
Large Congregation.

Bishop II @. Morrison and wife arrived in
our city on Saturday and spent Sunday here as
the guests of Rev. s. r. Belk and wife.
On Sunday the Bishop preached two excel
lent and eloquent sermons.
At the morning hour he preached on 1.-THE
Triumph of Faith" and al nil ht on the Active
and Passive Sides OF Christian Life" grand in
conception and magnificent in delivery, taking
as his night text, THE Birds of the Air. and
the 'Lillies of the Field,' as representative OF
the "active" and passive
His morning text was from Matthew, 18th
chapter and part Of 2Sth verse: 80 Woman
great is thy faith; be it unto thee as thou
wilt"
The triumph Of faith was demonstrated In
the case Of the Canaanitish woman, whose
daughter was vexed with a devil, although
not meet to give the children's bread TO the
dogs, she claimed the crumbs that fell from the
table.
The Bishop made fine exposition of faith
from the text. Faith ,he said is the guiding in.
spiration in theological social and agricultural
life. 1t is the basic principle of prudence fore
thought and energetic effort. Faith prepares
man against calamity and disaster The field
Of faith is the invisible and the field Of infidel.
ity is the material. Faith is the sixth sense or
faculty. Man who has no supernatural faith
is confined to the material in the common
things oflife. His existence from the cradle
to the grave is one of helplessness and ends in
feeding on worms. TO the spiritual man faith
and reason are identical. Infidelity ignores
faith and dignifes reason. All scientific sue
cess and achievement is founded on faith By
faith Columbus discovered America; Morse
the telegraph, and Edison invented the graph.
ophone.
In the common things Of life man acts and
achieves success by faith, but deny the posi-.
bility Of going TO heaven by faith He travels
to New York by faith. Faith inheres to a per
sonality and commands Omnipotence to our
service, instanced by the thief on the cross or
the woman pleading for her child The snail
craWlS at slow pace 10 reach the crag, but
the eagle measures the distance with the eye
and stretches its wings from the arid gulf and
reaches the highest peak with the swiftness Of
sunlight. So faith reaches the sublimest
heights in the realms Of thought and conquest
as did the Oanaanish woman in the great bat
tie she fought against odds for Christ in hear.
ing. her pitiable cry for help, gave her at first
no look or word Of sympathy. 1t was seeming
ly the silence Of contempt as cruel as the
grave. The disciples ssked th9t she be sent
away with her wish granted, because they
wished to get rid of her as an annoyance. PEG.
pie often wish for the prosperity Of others as q
matter Of selfshness to get them of their
hands. Learn lesson from this wo-
man, not to be discouraged in prayer. A faith ]
like hers defies obstacles and makes Ii an i'm
perlal virtue. heathen woman asking Of a
Jew for help, when race prejudice was between
her and Christ, yet She worshiped Him, and
the collaterals in the Divine pawnshop were
not put on broken VOWS, but on promises Of the
eternal God 1T isa sublime thing to have IN
conditional faith in God. Faith is tine trip
hammer that brushes every obstacle, as when
the children's bread 10 the dogs She plead
ed as a right for the crumbs that belongs 10