The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-06

hope, faith, gratitude-are all in the
recesses of the SOUL yelled from hu-
man eyes. The life hid with Christ
| in God is itself sanctuaried from hu-
| man gaze; but its outflowing streams
are for the worlds use. The essen
tial thing about any person, be he
religious or ncnreigious, is the ma
ture of the springs that feed his soul
For the Christian, the principal func-
ton is faith in God.
ooh Christ, He is the fountain,
The pure sweet we'll of love;
The streams on earth I've tasted,
More deep I'll drink above;
There to an ocean fullness,
His Mercy doth expand,
And glory, glory dwelleth
In ImmanuePs Land
Inscrutable, :ncomprehensible, ever
mysterious-suCh is faith. Yet it's
victories are the most tangible facts
in history. 1.-THE things that are
seen are temporal; but the things
that are unseen are eternal
Faith works two ways. Mans trust
in Christ but proves Christ's trust in
man. The mighty battlecry, Have
faith in Cod" is re-echoed, God has
faith in man The relationship be-
tween God and man is one of mutual
trust.
Times without number. and never
once too often, it has been said that
Christianity is life, and not a mere
credal subscription. Faith is not of
words, but of work. Christian char
acter is Gods proof that mans
pledge has not been misplaced. The
apostolic proof of faith is not profess
sion, but performance; not lip loyalty,
but loving life.
Faith is merely believing that God
will do what he says.
Nobody who has open eyes can deny
that there are within his knowledge
men and women who live the heavenly
life on the earthly plane. Their char
other worldly. Their life is hid with
Christ in God, SO that the beholder can
attest the truth of their confession,
when they say. with Paul, 81 have
been crucified with Christ; neverthe
less, live; yet not I, but Christ liveth
in me, and that life which 1 now live
in the flesh 1 live by faith, the faith
of the Son of God, who loved me, and
gave himself for me-
God helps those who cannot help
themselves, but believe he can help
them.
Last night my friend said to me,
cit is almost 10 o'clock. Put the re-
ceivers of this wireless receiving APP
paratuS on your ears, and you Will
hear Arlington signal the correct
time Then he told me how the
sound would come. 1 did as he in
structed, and promptly at five minutes
of 20 the pre-arranged signal began
to come from the wireless station and
observatory. just outside of Washing
ton and 1 set my watch by the govern |
ment's standard time. BY faith 1 took
that message. I could not see the Ar ,
lington observatory. hundreds of miles |
away. No wires connected us. I do
not fully understand the scientific |
process of wireless telegraphy. But 1
believed my friend. and it all befell as
he said and my watch was correctly |
regulated. So it is with faith in Christ /
When we accept his word, even though |
we are ignorant of the processes, eX- i
perience befal1s as he promises. and |
our lives are newly adjusted to his
standard.
Faith comes by hearing and hear |
ing by the word of God" We get faith |
from the Bible. There is more of the |
stuff of which faithful hearts are made |
in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews
than in the longest essay upon the |
subject. 1t is well to pray for faith; |
but it is better to read the Bible for it.
The heart of faith is the secret of
the life of victory. Conquest followsl
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