The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-01-25
Law Sermon.


Faith is the substance OF thing
hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen" (Hebrews xi, u.
A very wise lecturer % young men
has laid down as the rule for a hap
py ana successful life the following
formula: Get something that you
believe in so strongly that You can't
help roofing for it. He did not say
what you should 'get"---thc big
point is that you should believe il
in, and believe in it strongly.
When one looks about to discoy-
err man who is achieving greatly
in the face of heavy odGs one is
certain to find a man who believes
something. and who believes II
nightly. In every field of cndeayor
the leaders, those who have carried
the torch TO the highest point of
achievement, have been the men who
have been consumed with mighty
faith. You remember the ma2niti-
cent passage in the epistle TO the
Hebrews which enumerates the
splendid deeds CT the heroes of Is
rael All Of these things, we are
told. we're done by faith. The men
who stand forth in history, the men
hn n hifrt N md
the millions who patiently and cour-
ageous'y live out lives of simple hui
man service are all men in whom
Persuasion and belief
Hath ripened into faith, and faith
Become a passion intuition.
Faith touches the life of man H.
all fof It's relations. 1t touches him,
first of ALL with respect to himself
The man who does not believe ia
himself is not worth his salt. The
measure of a mans life is not 50
much his talents and ability, nor
even his opportunities, as IT is his
faith in himself. Let man but he.
lieve in himself and he will use his
talents and ability to the uttermost.
Also he will make the most of his
opportunities. This is the common
experience of all of us. We have al
known men who, though possessed OF
unusual talents, have never done
anything in keeping with them,
while ether men of far lesser talent
have done things that have enriched
their own lives and benefited hui
manity. The difference between
them is difference in faith. rhe
former did not achieve because they
did not believe in their own power
to achieve. They did not inspire the
faith Of others, AMI for the very rea
son that they had not faith in them
selves. Trust myself" says EN-
erson, every heart yibrateS to that
iron string"
A nan should have faith in his
fellows. There is much being said
in these modern days of the social
gospel" of our duty to our brothers;
but there is no duty so important as
the responsibility to believe in our
brother, There is nothing that is
so blighting to mans hopes as to
know that someone whom he re-
Charles Ram Kennedys wonderful
play, THE Servant IN the House, %
it is this that is responsible for the
degradation of the drain-man. His
brother. the Vicar, and the NicarG
wife never expected him to be any
thing but drunkard and ne'er-do
well and by that attitude helped ia
make him so and keep him so. But
his little daughter, who had never
seen him, played the game Of wish
ing for a father who would be GOOD
and true and beautiful, and by hel
childish faith that father Shout,
be all of these, helps to transfigurt
him. Not only that: she helped hir
to faith in helself so that he coul,
exclainl:
call myself summat,
I'm the Drain man! That's what
am!
To have faith in a fellow man !
to inspire him with faith in himself
is to give him the lift that he mo.
needs and help him toward tn
greatest fulness of life.
A man should also believe in til
community in which he lives. Ther
have been more towns built on fat
than on any other foundation. IL
the man of faith who sees in a bal
rem waste of prairie future m'
tropolis, and it is the men of fat
who catch his vision and work ,
make II real, who bring the metrop'
lis into being. The man who is a