The Alaska daily empire., 1915-07-10
FAITH
LCInoInnnlL EnnnIrar.l

(Cincinnad EnQuirer)
 Gene Underwood. who knows his Alaska and its people delights In telling story Illustrative oI tae l- ouenchabe spirit resident the norhland and breed By some unexplainable good fortune bunch oL old prospecors got past the pery gates and were content for space. Then a rumor reached them that pay dirt had been struck n the lower regions wnereopon an but stampedcd for the elevator Prosperity at hand satisfied the lisSerer for awhile but alter ie" days he approached st. Peter "f0uve heard these tales2' he asked of the key bearer we'll dom you know I've begun to believe maybe there's something in 'em!"
 Which may be an instance of extreme oreduli,y rather than of faith Of the right sort But nfter oli what creduiity but misplaced fath3 And n this hea the crucca test that must be applied to every form or belief Collectively considered the truth depends ID no whit upon the belief of the one who espouses t. nor can N be affected by the dersve scolngs of those who reject But believing heart not only receives ts own kind Of recjmpense but s on fair road to ar rive a the right goal however circntous the path or grt with seeming difficulties the journey
 What a wonderful thing is iaith2 How little after on are the thoughts and acts of life based upon the material demonstrations of fact Practically ai that men do predicated on beliefs that must be accepted without hope Of yerifcation. Else would the oppor tunity pass and the end vanish while the Durblnd n vesgaor is working out to his crass satisfaction the grounds on which he proposes to base his actions.
 at the same time. herein lies the necessity for a true faith that declared by the apostle to be the evil dence of things not seen And is the substantia tion of the hope also spoken of anything other than a making good. call it today
 Divine glimpses of what faith is may be found n the narrative portions of the Gospels When the Cen turion came to she Savior and said, q also am man under authority" the One who had taken upon Him- self the form of man. and who declared that He lived by every word that preceded from the mouth of God called the centurons words evidence of Faith. For the latter recognized in Film the supreme example of One under an authority as unassalabe as it was perfect in all It's behests.
 Again, the Syro-Phoenican woman came to the same One addressed Him in her dire necessity as the Son of David AS one outside the pale of neshly privilege He found necessary Co deny her claims in terms which would be heartless. apart from their n- significance " is not meet to take the children bread and cast it 10 the dogs Whereupon she took her place member of the nations to be blessed incl termadiaeiy To which came Che ineffahle answer 70 woman. great thy fah be t unto thee even as thou wilt The evidence of things not seen was followed by substantiaton Of the thing hoped for And her daughter made whole from that very hour'
 That man a religious anlnial every evidence pre-. sented goes to prove That he believes in sort fashion the things he demonstrate is daily shown by the smallest incidents of his lie That he can never get away from this dvinely imposed necessity has been his repeated experience in the heightened scroll history The work of the French en cyciopetss fen of It's weight rather than through the welfmean attacks Of pulpit orators and holy ia thers In faroof times, as today under simple and primitive conditions the principles Involved seem to be almost a faculty Sefreliance in the journey of hfe and the mind of men given him to be used But the unseen things transcend the powers or the in- lenect fathom # is to know Che yerities must be through a revelation Hence, every soul in It's ex tremity offers up Che prayer of the infant Samuel Speak Lord. for thy servant heareth."
 In way. do without faith. but it is hazardous undertaking calling for dependence upon human accessories liable to fall at the critical moment Woodcraft win carry savage out of the depths of wilderness. and compass win do the same for an en- gneer. Hut the who has neither the one nor the other would perish. Confronted with the immenstes of our desiuty all are as the uniearncd, needing the kindly ligbt for which Newman called in his perpex ities
 There be lords many and gods many according to Holy itself Strange incense rises today from inc numerabe atars Is there any guide2 Depend upon it. the believing heart will receive its But to the one susceptible to the evidences around and with in the PlIatc inquiry What is truth? will receive no adequate reply. even though in the of the Ro man Procurator the living embodiment of Truth should stand in his very presence.