The mirror., 1915-02-18
We NEED MORE FAITH
IN OUR FELLOW-MAN
FAITH MEANS MORE TO HUMANITY THAN
MOST PEOPLE EVER REALIZE.
The World Would be Great Deal Bet
ter if People Would Seek for Good as
Well as for Evil in Human Nature. Seek
and ye Shall Find.
By II. S. Med.

In the English language. mhich
contains something like 100000
words, there is one little word that
m cans more to humanity than most
people realize. That little word is
Faith" and tho it is not such
beautiful word as love, charity, or
hope, nevertheless it is word
greatly essential to happiness and
success. Man may possess love and
hope and be charitable to his fell
lows but unless he has faith in them
and faith in himself he finds a va
cancy which can not be filed TIE
successful elimination of ar under
taking could never be realized with
out making use of faith. First,
there must be faith that the thing
can be done; second, there must be
faith that So-and-so can and will do
it; and third and last, there must
lie faith that all things needed will
be obtained.
The more faith one has the more
likely is he to accomplish what he
sets out to do. Small faith is like
an empty pocket book-of very lit
tie value. Speaking of small faith
reminds us of little story that we
have heard several times:
In a small town there lived
spinster who was very much an
noyed by an embankment which
shut off her view Of the neighb
ing houses. She could not see
what her neighbors were doing and
such state of affairs distressed her
very much.
"One Sunday at church she heard
the minister preach of The faith
that can the mountains move,' and
straightway she thot she saw the
ways and means to remove the OBJ
noXious embankment, and she felt
very lighthearted and gay as she
wended her way homeward.
In her prayer that night was
lengthy entreaty to the Lord to re-
move the hated embankment. When
she arose in the morning she ran to
the window and noted that the en-
bankment had not disappeared; she
threw up her hands and cried:
There! That's just what l expect
ed!'"
We see you. reader, smile as you
read those last words and we almost
believe we hear you say. We'll, she
didn't have much faith, that's GER
tain!' You are correct in yonr sup
position, but, just stop for a mo-
ment and consider the great num-
ber of people in the same category.
Perhaps you yourself have come
short of the ideal faith. Think of
the great number of people who
have started out with great faith in
some great undertaking: at first all
goes we'll, everything moves along
smoothly; then things begin to go
wrong, disappointments and dis
couraging delays heap up IN
complicated mass; faith begins to
fade away and, perhaps, finally
comes utter collapse of plans and
consequently, failure. Thus we
see that while it doesn't take much
faith when everything is going
smoothly it requires great deal to
pull thru when everything goes
wrong.
One of the greatest things that is
needed is more faith in the good
points of humanity; more faith to
believe that our fellow-men and fell
lOw-women are better than exterior
appearances would have us believe.
Many men and women have lived
exemplary lives for many years;
then they have com mitted some
wrong deed and, i'm mediately ali
their past life of kindness, helpful
ness and goodness is forgotten, COW
cred up and buried by one wrong
act, and Thousand ready tongues
bear the scandal abroad. Yea, the
one act has, in the eyes CT the peo-
pie, transformed the unfortunate
into a thing to be stunned and a.
voided; a thing to be passed with
lothing and scorn; thing not to be
touched, lest in touching, the world
also should become detiled. Is such
a procedure just? Is it according
to the rule laid down by our Saviour.
Jesus Christ? Would the world not
turn around just as smoothly. and
the people benefited far more if
there was just little more faith in