Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-03-01

Stcum engine mas 10 OraW traln Win
out water In the boiler or than a fur.
mace Is able without fuel for the flames
10 feed upon to give forth heat.
Now for the other side Of this ques-
ton Here Is boy born tho son Of a
barber His mother was a woman Of
ungovernablc temper. who passed the
last years Of her life in an insane asy-
lum. Poverty ushercd him into life.
His boyhood days were passed by an
unhappy fircsidc. But one day, while
going along the London streets, he
looked into the windows Of an art store
and saw some beautiful pictures. They
open TO him new world. He says, 81.
TOO. am painter" Hut his genius was
not like that Of Edwin I.andsecr. who
al fourteen was able to win prize Mt
the academy by exhibiting there the
picture Of majestic st. Bernard dog.
But slowly. painfully, amid ridiculc,
with an empty purse and an empty
stomach, he had to struggle on at his
canvas. Every outside influence fought
him back. Only the inward sciousness
that he was painter kept him at his
task. Then what Boswell was to Sam
ucl Johnson John Rustin became to
him. Then Ruskin. the matchless art
critic. led the English world to his feet.
Then came success William Turner
became the most honorcd colorist Of
all the British empire. II was the trl-
umph Of faith. Would William Turner
ever have accomplished what he did,
with the whole world ignoring him for
years. had he not been willing to starve
and suffer because he believed in him
self:
Faith In oncscIf.
But find that faith has n broader
realm than even Its jurisdiction over
our physical bodies and our mental sue
ccSscs. II IS able TO come 10 us and
say: Man. thou canst Use thine own
which separates the present from the
future. but thou canst also make mon
work for thee, and without me thou
canst do nothing as a social organism"
80 faith" | cry. what dost thou
mean? Art thou not simply "A gospel
messenger? Art thou the queen Of
commerce! Dost thou rs an empress
swing thy sceptcr over the busy marts
Of trade" And faith answers: "Thou
hast we'll said. ! am ruler over all the
civilized world. Where commercial
nan deals with man, or whore man is
a mound builder. or whore man floats
national flag. nm faith, ruling, con
quering faith
Faith is everywhere practical in
mans relation TO man. ! decide TO take
trip from New York to California. I
enter the railroad office and purchase a
ticket. pay down my money. prac-
tically say by that act: "Here. Mr.. Rail
road President, is a hundred dollars
| have faith in you that you will keep
your contract and take me TO my des-
tnation." After I receive my monthly
wages | take my money to the bank
and say: Here. Mr.. Cashier, is my
money. Put it out at interest. I have
faith in you. will trust you with my
all" Instead OF living the life OF a her
NIT and arming myself with pistol
and gun and hSrricading my home at
night. as the New England settlers did
during the time OF the Indian upris-
ings in 1880, | associate myself with
my neighbors into a nation. We elect
president, a governor and mayor
We say to these officials: You guard
us. You protect MS. We have faith in
you and your government" The bust
ness world. the domestic world the
political world. could not he run sic
cessfully day, an hour, a minute.
without faith. glorious and triumphant
faith
Now my friends. as rational faith is
such an essential for mans physical
and mental and social developments is
Il absurd for us 10 assert that gospel
faith is an essential for mans spiritual
existence: We have logically proved
that when man lives for himself or
when n man walks with other men he
has 10 walk with the evidence Of the
things not seen. Shall man nct walk
thus with God: And, my brother. if
man. in spite Of himself. is compelled
10 trust man. in order to live in an
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for man TO trust God in a spiritual
sense:
II YOU have faith in an earthly par.
Ont. why should YOU not have faith in
a heavenly Father? Suppose YOU have
been n maynard hoy. suppose YOU
have been drunkard, a gambler and
q libcrtinc. Suppose You have run
away from home and not had any re-
lalions with the old homestead for
months-aye, for years. Then suppose
friend meets you in Il distant city
and sends back home yonr address.
Then suppose your father sends TO YOU
an earnest. loving letter. which goes
thus; Dear Charley For months and
months your mother and have been
trying to find you. Under the awful
strain Of worry your mother has bro.
ken down. The doctors say she can only
last Il few weeks. Her one cry is: MY
boy. my boy. Oh. why does not my
boy come home? Conc home. Charley.
come home 10 your mother and TO inc.
We will forgive all, if You will only
let sin alone and come back to our
love" Would you not believe your IA
Their: Would you not have faith in his
forgiveness: Would you not take the
first train back To the old homes cad
ana throw yourself upon your mothers
sick bed, just as YOU used to do when a
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