The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-04-28

in the life of many a man Is not the
task at which he works. the house IN
which he lives. the money he has in
bank. the clothes he wears or the food
he eats. More real than any or all
of these is the love which CLOVIS IN
his heart for his sweetheart or wife.
This spiritual passion, which battles
description or analysis. Is all OF life
to him. on his n%eighbor il may seem
unreal and insubstantial. 10 the man
| himself ii is the most definite and po-
tent thing in all the world. So II IS
with faith. We cannot detach from =
Christian his faith. and exhibit II n
a glass case. The ancient prosecutors
of Christianity could not cut out their
victims faith and place II IN evidence
at his trial. as doctors could cut out
| an appendix. The martyrs testimony
| often seemed foolishneSS TO his slayers.
Yet that faith Is making world-con-
quests where all the visible might and
arms of the Roman Empire failed.
The apostle saw clearly into the po-
tentiality OF this indesCribable. intan-
gibie force called faith when he cried
This is the victory that overcometh
the world, even our faith
True faith is objective: IT is faith in
a Being. During the fatal illness az
the late Emperor of Japan one edu-
Gated agnostic told a missionary that
he had prayed for his recovery. But
you do not believe in any Cod" ask
ed the missionary. NO. but | just
prayed answered the man, showing
by his manner that he recognized tho
desperate incongruity OF a prayer di-
rected to the nOn-exiStent. like a ship
without destination, rudder or captain.
The conQuering quality of faith con
sists in its being directed toward ON
Impotence, who has never betrayed a
trust reposed in Him.. On the wall OF
a home Of a useful man has hung
Sinco Who the motto 'Hayp faith
in God"
,, What we believe determines what
we become. The character OF an in
dividual or of a race is fixed by its
: faith
The great record of faith in tho
r New Testament is found in the ele-
venth chapter of Hebrews, running
l over into the twelfth chapter. The
l closing a~poStrophe should be read and
reread in connection with this topic
. And what shall l more say? for the
time will fail me if l tell of Gideon.
t Barak, Samson. Jephthah: of David
: and Samuel and the prophets: who
through faith subdued kinddoms.
wrought righteousness. obtained
promises, stopped the mouths of lions.
Quenched the power of fire. escaped
the edge of the sword, from weakness
were made strong, Waxed mighty in
war, turned to flight armies of aliens.
h Women received their dead by q Re-
surrection, and others were tortured.
not according their deliverance: that
y they might obtain a better reSurrec-
ton; and others had trial of mockings
and Scourglngs, yea, moreover or
bonds and imprisonment: they were
stoned, they were sawn asunder, they
were tempted, they were slain with
the sword; they went about in sheep
skins, in g~Oatskins: being destitute.
afflicted, il-treated, (of whom n
world has not worthy, wandering in
the deserts and mountains and caves.
and the holes Of the earth. And
all these. having had witness borne To
them through faith received not the
promise. God having provided some
l. better thing concerning US, that apart
>e from us they should not be made per
r feet.
IS "IherefOre let US also. seeing we are
comprised about with 50 great a cloud
OF witnesses, lay aside every weight.
< and the sin which doth SO easily be
II, set Us, and let US run with patience
the race that is set before us, looking
unto Jesus the author and perfecter
OF our faith. who for the Joy that was
set before him endured the cross. de
y splsing shame. and hath sat down at
o. the right hand of the throne of God"
Christian faith is a grand cathedraI
D. with divlnely pictured windows. Stand
ing without. you see no glory. no.
can possibly imagine any: standine
10 Wlthln, every ray of light reveals I
40 of unspeakable s%plendor.-
Bishop Porteus.
Isl falth is to believe what we do no
re see, and the reward of this faith i
OF 10 see what We believe.-St. Angus
is tine.
Faith in man fououc f.ah :, Cod
We mere are no locks on the doors in tn,
simplest. most trustful, and most god
n " communities. The landlord wa
w shrewd who insisted that a noisy in
ne noel should pay his bill in advance
an other except in tho Schoa, - 80, !;
lat God.
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