The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-08-25

an unmarked grave in the Mt. Joy Gene
terry of>Dublin, he says No, Mr. Par|.
rcn,: a mighty Will does Enot make every cry,
their boys? That weak VIII is the better
for them! Nay, verify. Great 1orce Is to
the bov what momentum is to the rite
ball. \ boy without will cannot live. He
needs every ounce he can acquire, cnt tins
alone will not make him morally >2tc or
spiritually strong The hope OF nan =
not in his family. not in his force, ncr yet
is it in his furnishings, which use as the
equivalent for the viii of man. John says
neither the individual nor tie word VIII
be saved by its furnishings. When Jonah
went to Nineveh, one OF the reasons !or
his going was that 10000 people need;u
education-''they could not tell their rlshV
hand from their left That same cry goes
up to-day. Only educate and tram: tnae
i sufficient. Your section Is not so white
washed with this system of ethical culture
as some Others I know. But VIC, never can
emphasize too often or too positively the
ayia! tenet of Ch2ist'S creed that what ::
man needs primarily is not accession or
brain. but . fresh heart; not llium,Hation'
bnt reconstruction. the eStahiishnent III
him by grace of something that IS not IN
him bv nature. Illumination OF the BRAN
is never clarifcation OF the heart. lhefe
was a man in our American HE VINO Was
born of the best family, with personal
force that commanded men aid captlVateN
women. whose furnishings could scarSeS
be surpassed, and yet there mas not "aiNe"
across the pages OF American h,s'G1S D. "
blacker hearted william than Aaron BUR-:
7 am &C far as possible from saying that
1,nowledre makes a man worse; my only
contention is that it has not IN Itself me
powe- OF making men better. leeas, eau
cation alone. can neither reconstruct tue
life nor recreate the heart.
This is a thoughtful age; men are
hrainv: all about Us there IS passion !or
new ideas: but our most urgent necessll!
is not of idea but of power: What we
need most CT all is not schooling but pap
ism and that is to come through talth;;
What is this faith that is to give us t4e
supreme victory and insure our safety ~
is at this distinct point that we ceg'n oe
learn the real mcaning and purpose oi
faith. Every little while am told by one
end another that BE wou!d Ike TO E2te
faith in this particular matter IN REGARD 70
the Bible, Or in regard to CnriS1 III tAe
ture life as though if his mind coilo only
he brought intellectually to consent to It,
he consummation would be reached and
oreat result achieved. Being prepared 10
assent to this or that particular statement
in regard to Christ, Tor example. is very
distinct thing from faith. Faith IS per
sora] attitude. personal relationship; Falth
;s snch q personal yielding OF ourselves to
snother as brings US into living cqntact
WITH that other and so nlekes US recipient
nj what it lies in that other to confer: ne
Child becomes like his father by talth IN
his father, because his faith IS that in"aIo
surrender that makes him susceptioie 70
every impression that goes tortn from MS
father. A child's faith toward his motner
is not faith that what his mother says IS
true; it is faith in his mother, the hlolns ..
himself in the one life that enwraps them
hoth so that he lives in the sweep OF ne;
.inspiration and grows up toward manhooo
nv the appropriation OF personal Vlgor, WIS
dom and Sweetness hourly made over MN.
And that is cast in the same moid as COS
nel faith. which is as a cord by which the
living Christ holds the believer, to Hum
self Faith is not condition wherein we
hold to something or somebody as that In
ghich we are held by something or so9e-
boiy. 1t is not holding doctrine, put oer
ing Seld by a person. Il know wnom l
have Selieved." The iron filings SUCK t9
the mae.,et, not because they Try so mary
to stick, uut because they arc maste'eo
by the magnet. - - Eg
Faith. then, has for its very essence q
personal sell commitment, one QUIZ ~
which ia worth a whole ton of lntelleStuaii
aff;rmation. Arm; 1t is this sense of being held
hv Cod that makes a man safe and secure.
I do not know how the grace OF zoo can
take a man like Saul of Tarsus and make
him Paul the Apostle; but no man VIII VII
Question lis knowledge when he gays:
;;uo Tet mt 7. but Christ liveth in me.
That is exactly what John E. Cough CRED
"a he vent like a flaming torch blazing the
way for a multitude Of hopeless drunk
ards. The hope, and the .only nope, 1or
us all is in the grace Of God. II were TO
strike a tuning fork on tins desk ana hoi9 i3
i. to nv ear not one IN tins room coulu
hear the sound thereof. but eouio near i
it and tune my violin. Strike II asa'n n S,,u n
instead Of holding it to my ear, set 1t up,
~, tb;s desk. Instantly the sound would
he heard everywhere But what do you
hear? Not the tuning fork. for the tuning
fork makes no louder sound the second
time than it did the first. What 40 you
besr9 You hear this hard wood Cesk.
which has no music in itself. but Just as
soon as It comes in contact with a mrslcai
Instrument il itself becomes musical ana
delights every one that has music IN MS
soul. ;soon+
alone by itself; it may come from goou
family or a bad; it may have great Iorce
or little; it may have choice furnishings or
9rnend droe Ul mon the personal self surrender
to the Son of God. who alone has the pow
er to make them Sons Of God, which are
horn not of family or Of force OF Oh 4cr'
nirhings, but of faith. 5