The Cordova daily times., 1921-05-25
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FAITH
By F. 4. WALKER

4 A handwriting evidences youth, writes as follows: T have lost faith in everything. Write something to help me to regain it."
 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- man existence.
 Stop for momentsan see htw much you depend upon faith. You open your eyes in the morn ing and the first thought is of the 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 l food to sustain you, shelter to protect you.
 You start for your place of work and you have faith in the man who l you there that he will see that you arrive safely.
 AS you go up 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 go to work and for six dnys 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-oarned rest.
 You have faith in nature. in to- morroW's sunrise and tonight's fair stars; in the coming of the spring time and the springing grass and 1 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 you?
 Older and wiser people than you have thought that they have lost faith and then found that it was not i faith but judgment that had fled from | them.
 Noltaire, wise man in many things, l said and wrote much that was fool lsh. He said that Faith consists in i believing things because they are lm- | possible"
 Of course there is not an atom of truth in that statement His daily life and your daily life proves it's falSehOOd
 The apostle Paul, writing to the Hebrews, set down this truth, "Now l 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 it's derivation it means literally ito stand under" and that means foundation. In other words, Faith is the foundation of | things hoped for. Since the present moment is all we 1 have and all that we are assured , of the future must be altogether a matter of hope, and hope depends l entirely on faith. Faith is not credulity. 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 it to have been wrongly placed. But lose faitb we cannot, and our effort alwayr should be to strengthen and sustain it.
 Faith and hope are our mental crutches and the lamer we are tho | more we need them. How foolish it 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 moment from | the light which God has mercifully 1 given to all of us and the darkness frightens and oyerwhelms you. Turn back. Your faith will return. (Copyright.) TILT ~EE rnrrH ~LcDr,7 l