Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1907-12-02


south, recently delivered a very in
teresting sermon to a large congrega-
ton, it being the fifth in the series
now being published in this paper. DR.
Canter's subject was Walking BY
Faith and he took his text from Cor
5:7 He said in part:
TO the christian believer there is
three-fold state---the present state
in the body, the state out of the body
between death and the resurrection,
and the state after the resurrection,
when the soul and body will be re
united These three states are refer
ed to in this place. In V. c, Paul
says THAT while we are at home in
the body we are absent from the Lord
In v s, he speaks of the intermediate
state and says I'VE are confident and
willing rather to be absent from the
body, and to be present with the
Lord In " and 10 he refers to
the state beyond the resurrection, ano
says Wherefore we labonr, that
whether present or absent We may be
accepted of Him. For we must al
appear before the Judgment seat OF
Christ; that every one may receive
the things done in the body, according
to that he hath done, whether it. bt
good or bad"
In the present state in the body
we walk by faith The other states
and the things they involve, we cannot
see With respect to them we do MOI
walk by sense, nor experience, mol
tradition. nor re, son but by faith
The contrast here is between faitl
/ anu otioC. DtNltCIi liic idlNR Nlb-
ible world. and the spiritual, invisi-
BILE world To the one the believer
is related by sight, and draws his
knowledge from it through the med
ium of the physical senses. But the
knowledge that the mind gathers
through this medium is limited, be-
cause the scope wherein the senses
operate is narrow Taste cannot g
beyond the touch of the tongue. Touch
cannot go beyond the reach of the
arm. Hearing cannot go beyond the
waves of sound. Smelling no farther
than the doors that may be waited
to us by the breezes of heaven. How
very narrow the world that these
senses reveal.
But sight opens wider world.
Sight is the imperial sense. II
sweeps out as far as the horizon, and
up to the stars, and puts us in COM
munication with distant worlds. Yet
compared with the universe how very
small is this field of view Beyond
what we see there is another world:
a world of mind and spirit. The eter-
nal and heavenly world. With this
world faith connects US. Faith is to
this world what sight is to the body.
Faith as an essential, fundamental
| principle in spiritual life cannot be
too much stressed 1t is the Sub
stance of things hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen" BY it we under
stand, THAT things which are seen
were not made by things which do APP
\ pear" Without this faith it is i'm
possible to please God. Faith is the
i "a lhSipiC tiat uiuCl iico, SuppOiloI anu
regulates the whole course of the be-
levers life and conduct. he walks
by faith. not by sight. The truth
of this statement is seen.
In the fact that faith is the basis
of all the knowledge that lies beyond
the realm of the senses. And most of
our knowledge lies in that realm. If
we had no other knowledge except
what we gather through the senses
of the body we would not have enough
to live by. What do we know about
the nations, cities, peoples, countries
of the past, except on the principle
of faith You never saw Babylon Nine
web, Athens. Some of us never saw
Paris or London. You never saw
Caesar. nor Bonaparte. nor Washing
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