The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-10-16

to beliefs and he eventually carried
back all the furniture that he had car
ried out and he became "A firm believ-
err Des Carries differed from the
chronic doubter. declaring that he had
no use for doubt as such, and doubt
ed only that he might find the truth.
ut has sometimes been said that he
had it not been for doubt COpernicus
would never have made his wonderful
discoveries in astronomy. The travel
er visiting the home in which he lived
and seeing the holes in the roof and
walls through which in the absence of
a telescope, he viewed the heavenly
bodies, will realize that it was not
doubt but a new faith which moved
him. faith in a more perfect system
than the old system of PtOlemy. All
the progress of science has been due
to faith. The more men know, the
less doubtful they become. Men some
times parade their doubt as if it were
something to be proud of, something
which indicated that their great in
tellectual superiority over those be-
lieving. This is untrue. Every doubt
indicates the presence of something
which the mind of the dOubter has
been unable to master. The cOnceit
OF human nature is often responsible
for doubt. There is a certain stage
of existence in boys and girls when
this state of mind is almost normal. 1t
/ comes at time when they cease to
grow and begin to swell. Growth is
a normal development, while swelling
is a disease. This disease is to be treat
ed like other Affections of youth, like
the humps, measles and chicken-pox-
the patient should be kept warm and
Will soon recover. While the trouble
exists it is characterized by a feeling
of superiority on the part of the af-
flicted over their parents and other
people generally, and an assumption
that thew much Snnarinr Ordln-
arily it runs it's course in a short time
but if it strikes in and becomes
chronic it is serious. l am not Oppos-
ed to legitimate doubt. God appeals
to the reason and intelligence of mar
| and does not assume him to be an lido
! incapable of thinking nationally. Mar
| should use his intelligence in a legi
innate way. 1t is the man who make:
his home in doubt, who is censurabl'
and who is not using his reason right
! ly.
| Professor William James, the grea
! psychologist is scarcely the man t
! whom one should expect to appeal OIL
| this question and yet when he treat
4 it, he completely demolishes the cas-
/ of the doubter. He shows that if yol
Il doubt you cannot progress or do any
/ thing. While you are in doubt you d
Il not move 1t is only when you begi
II to get faith in any course that you be
II gin to move to adopt it. Hence, tn
q man who doubts the existence of Go
and of divinity of Jesus Christ vii
live as if there were no God and as
y Jesus Christ was not divine.
y IAN unfortunate phase of doubt
81 manifested in 'culturine' clubs such a
81 are often found nowadays, where tn
q members instead of original essay
and poems too often devote their in
tellectual energies to criticism {
someone who has been dead for som
time.
Il eff doubt is a good thing, it ougf
q to be good everywhere and capable {
& being applied TO all conditions TAX
faith out of the home and make tn
4 parents doubtful of one another and {
their children and the children doub
full of their parents and you will IL
4 deed find the wheels going aroun
but they will not be wheels of pros
/ ress. The wheels of divorce court
1 more for this reason. We see me
who do not want any religion fc
themselves who are very glad whe
they find that their wives and chi
dren have it. Some years ago, whe
. financial trouble was threatened