The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1921-05-26
Something to
Think AbOut
FAITH
By r. Il. WALKER

eNAP MT " ANtaAh II
You are mistaken my dear young /
woman. You have not lost faith. !
You only think you have.
You could not live for a day with |
out faith.
Faith Is the twin sister OF hope. and
both are absolutely necessary to tu-
nan existence.
Stop for a moment and see hcw
much you depend upon faith.
You open yosr eyes In the morn
ing and the first thought is Of 'he
day and It's duties, and you have
faith that you will be able to perform
them.
You have faith that you will live
through the day: that you will have
food TO sustain you. shelter 10 protect
you.
You start for your place Of work
and you have faith in the man who
operates the conveyance that takes
you there that he will see that you
arrive safely.
As you go M in the elevator you
have faith in the machinery that
hauls you from the ground up into
the air else you could not risk your
life on the strength OF those slender
cables.
You 20 TO work and for six days
you labor with faith that at the end
OF the week your employer will pay
you the money you have earned.
All through the days work you have
faith; faith that your fellow laborers
will treat you honestly and kindly;
faith that you will be able to fairly
accomplish your task and go home
to well-earned rest.
You have faith in nature, In to-
morrow's sunrise and tonighfs fair
stars; in the coming Of the spring.
time and the springing grass and
flowers. You have faith that the
planted seed will bring forth fruit
and that all logical results will fol.
low right causes.
How could you go to sleep without
faith that you will awaken or eat
without faith that the food will nour-
ish and strengthen your
Older and wiser people than you
have thought that they have lost
faith and then found that It was MOI
faith but judgment that had fed from
them.
Voltalre. wise man In many things.
said and wrote much that was fool
lsh. He said that Faith consists in
believing things because they are I'M
possible"
OF course there is not an atom OF
truth in that statement. His daily
life and your daily life proves its
falsehood
The apostle Paul, writing to the
Hebrews. set down this truth, "Now
faith is the substance OF things hoped
for" Some translators OF the original
have put the word assurance" in the
place of the word substance"
Substance" seems to me the bet
ter word because from its derivation
1t means literally "tS stand under"
and that means foundation. In other
words, Faith is the foundation of
things hoped for.
Since the present moment Is all we
have and all that We are assured
Of the future must be altogether
matter OF hope, and hope depends
entirely on faith.
Faith is not credullty.
The man who hopes for the i'm.
possible cannot have faith in his
hopes. Genuine faith is based on truth
which is unchangeable and everlasting.
So long as there Is life there is
faith as well as hope. Perhaps
sometimes our faith may lessen be-
cause experience shows II to have
been wrongly placed. But lose faith
we cannot. and our effort always
should be to strengthen and sustain
IL.
Faith and hope are our mental
crutches and the lamer we are the
more we need them.
How foolish II would be for us,
who are at best. In ourselves. so feeble
and helpless. to throw away the things
which serve best to support and
sustain US.
You have not lost faith. You have
only turned away for a moment from
the light which God has mercifully
given to all OF us and the darkness
frightens and overwhelms you.
Turn back. Your faith will return
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