The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-08-01
A DEEP FAITH AND a STRONG
HOPE ARE EQUALLY NECESSARY
CONDITIONS TO THE EXIST
ENCE OF HUMAN HAP
PINESS.
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is superior 30 ala 1ncIuuesS all OLnei
faith in whatever is true and good. Il
makes Eearable ashe pains of bodily af
fiiotions, the hahdships of family, thu
trials of disappointments and life
would be crushed by the overburder
SORROWS of a hapless ending 1t is by
faith we implore in supplant prayer in
TIME of so-a distress. and heavy trials
Ii is by faith we lift ouc hearts to a
God of loving kindness in praise for his
great merciess and abundant blessings
No faith, no hope life would be un-
bearable. Our greatest blessings and
swee- est enjoyments could but add to
and intensity our sorrows and make
Hopeless all joy and happiness of this
!ife.s
Faith is necessary condition n the
SOCIAL life of people and determines the
charao ter of mans relation with man.
Life here would be chaos and this earth
pendemonium were the members OF
] the human race denied of all faith, hon
esty, truthfu,ness and sincerity of one
another Life under such conditions
would not be worth liz ings There could
be an appreciation in great enterprises,
no mutual helpfulness for every one
would look with suspicion upon every
one else Mans life would be but a
barren waste filled with woe and dis
tress, turmoil and confusion from be-
ginn 'ng to end.
Faith is reflective and possessing
it ourselves we may inspire it in 9th
ers 1t is not easily hidden but finds
expression in the exuberance of joy
and gladness which can come to the
soul strong in the faith and hope of
future good. Like beacon set upon
hill it sends forth with all the
abundant effulgence it's joyful rays of
light throughout all the density of sur
rounding darkness. And the discour-
aged sojourner YEARLY Flooding far
below in the valley of doubts and
fears may see it's signaling light
vomiting upward to a place Of rest and
peace. !
Faith in the final overcome of evil
by good is a mighty reserve force
against the deadening of misfortune
and all unfriendly agencies Of this
life so actively at work against our
best welfare, when our dotted plans |
do not turn out as we had so earnestly !
expected, when sickness prostrates us
upon a bed of suffering and we feel |
almost crushed under the heavy |
weight of sorrow, it is then that faith |
enables US TO look beyond the present |!
so bitterly filled with agony and pain
and gives hope for something better
sometime, somewhere.
We do not always wisely. place our
faith or acquire the things hoped for. |
Faith like hope may be wrongly fplac-
ed and therefore cannot bring us the
desired possession. 1t seems often a
fatal human weakness for the human
mind to indulge in vain imaginings i'm
possible of possession because such
faith is founded on error and there
fore can have no reality in the pos
session of the thing desired. They are
but Dreams and like dreams must dis
appear on the true awakening
It is also highly necessary to be-
lieve in ourselves if we would win any
great measure of success in any line
OF e1deaver. 1t is always most help
full condition to possess faith in our
own powers through the strength Civ
en- US by our Lord and Maker and in
the ability to accomplish the work and
reach the goal marked out by our.
selves or only inspired by desire. But !
self is hard critic. We may put on
bold front and appear brave before |
the world but it is not so easily done
when we come to deal with our own
selves. We must show ourselves
strong in suffering and courageous be- |
fore discouragements else we shall fail
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success and fail at the very Beginning |
AS we show ourselves strong in self
confidence, strong in suffering and
courageous before discoura gements we
gain power over defeat and win for
ourselves yet greater faith and
stronger hope.
But self is a hard critic. We may
put ona bold front and appear brave
before the world and full of faith but
it is not so easily done when we come
to deal with ourselves. Unless we
can have this real abiding faith in us
we have not much chance when
brought in competition with the brave
OF heart to keep step with the van or
press ahead along paths of original
exploration.
Faith in whatever we may desire
begets enthusiasm and carries us for
""1 Ill tHo eager expectation OF nope
and makes real greatly to our sense
of present enjoyment what we cannot
; know. Faith" says Pascal, ssaffirms
many things respecting which the
senses are silent, but nothing which
they deny; it is superior to their tes,
tlmony, but not opposed to it." Mans
mental Faculties, his power of reason
ing, takes the evidence, and the feel.
lngs grow into a conscious sense of
| its existence and what before NAV
have been doubtful possibility be.
comes now real to the mind awakened
into living active faith.
| Faith is never too small a thing or
need for the greatest mind nor too
great for the most simple and is alike
| necessary for all #7-.@-