The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-25
FAITH WILL CURE MANY
OF OUR IMAGINED EVILS

minister to the little fellows, They had every attention that
medical science could devise.
The physician said from the beginning that the cases were
hopeless. When the children gave signs of sinking the physician
shook his head sorrowfuny and declared it was a familiar symp-
tom. When they gave signs OF reyiving the physician said that
was always the case with persons so afflicted.
Through 1t all there was one person who refused to become
discouraged or dsconsolate, That person was the father. When
the doctor attempted to make him understand the hopelessness
OF the case he merely answered that the doctors pinned their
faith TO medical science, but he was trusting in ar infinitely
greater power, and the doctor said: Il don't seem to be able to
make him understand"
For some cause the children did rally they did improve. and
now the physician says they are going to get well. The physician
has added to his reputation as a man of science,
Is there no place in this remarkable if not miraculous cure
treatment, possibly the best known, but which almost always
fails, or is it a case in which the answer to the father is, "Thy
faith hath made thy children whole"
No man has yet discovered the boundary line in the twilight
zone of mystery where science ends and Providence begins. As
a result there are many persons with many opinions.
There are those who believe there is nothing beyond the
power Of the physical constitution Of medicines, drugs and the
surgeons skill,
There are. others who disdain these and rely entirely upon
their faith to make them whole, The great majority Of the people
are as far from accepting one theory as they are from accepting
the other.
Faith lis the ruling influence in business, in commerce and
industry. .
A great meeting was held in Washington this week, at
tended by representatives of labor and representatives of the
employers of labor.
They sought to find a middle ground where they could meet
and agree upon a working understanding that would dlspel doubt
and suspicion and mistrust,
When one side made a proposal the other rejected it. When
one suggested a method Of procedure the other rcpudiated it.
Whatever labor wanted was viewed with suspicion by the en-
ployers, and whatever the employers wanted was viewed with
alarm by the labor representatives.
The meeting lacked faith. One side had no faith in the good
intentions OF the other. Whatever one side said was good the
other side said was evil, and whatever one side said was evil the
other embraced as the logical solution of all their industrial evils
So long as one-haf the people mistrust the other half there.
will be no peace, Without faith every effort OF the nediatOrS
and those most interested in reconciliation will be as nothing,
Honorable men and dishonorabc men can never agree. The
problem is to discover which side is honorable, which side pos
sesses al. the lofty motives, and which side is selfish, dishonorable
and without ideals, Men of honor usually can agree on funda-
mentas, and men bent upon dishonorable and vicious enterprises
find no barrier in the way OF harmonious cooperation,
When men dSrust one another with mutual suspicion either
one side or both may be right.
When faith disappears from the earth there will nothing else
left worth living for. When men have more faith they will lind
their problems relatively small, and reasonable understandings
always possible,
Every day there are manifestations OF what can be accom-
plshed by faith, even IT, it is no bigger than a mustard seed.
An express train running 30 miles an hour approaches a
way station and the flare OF a small red torch comes into view,
i is a little thing, but it brings the train to a dead stop The
engineer has been taught to believe that the little signal has a
powerful meaning. He is confident that il he diSreeards the
signal he is likely to run straight into disaster and possibly death.
The block eials on the great railroads arc the only pro-
lection that thousands OF passengers have against collision and
wreck. One small wire pulled wrong may bring two trains to-
gether in the same block with the disastrous consequences that
we sc OHen Cd ABOUT u Udn crew must nave an ABIDING
faith in those little signals pulled by the unseen hand OF some
other man.
Without faith the engineer would bring his train to a cont
pletc standstll or be forever laborng under the apprehension OF
a collision,
The great financial institutions have no better foundation
than the faith Of their depositors, stockholders, directors and Of
ficers. They exchange very little genuine money. Their deals
are with paper. The officers have faith in the men who sign the
notes or they are not accepted as collateral.
The same Is true OF the business between nations. A GREAT
banking institution in London cables another great institution II
New York to pay a merchant for a shipload Of material and i i
done. The entire transaction is based upon the faith every part,
to the transaction has in every other party to it '
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There are those who believe that faith can cure bodily Ills
There are thousands OF others who believe that faith can crr,
spiritual ills.
We have applied faith to our spiritual affairs Some rcy ~,
faith to correct bodily ills. We have seen faith work wonders
Why not give faith a trial in the correction OF our industrial ills
1t has been found that threats. coercion, strikes and lock -opt
only drive the people OF different classes farther apart. Why no
Try something that will bring them closer together; WI no
have faith in one another