Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-07-01
Something to
Think Ab0uf

By F. II. WALKER

A YOUNG woman, at least her
"A handwriting evidences youth,
writes as follows: Il 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 lu-
man existence
Stop for q moment and see h,w
! much you depend upon faith.
You open your eyes in the NOM
ing and the first thought Is OF he
| day and Its duties, and you have
| faith that you will he able to perform
| them.
You have faith that you win live
through the day; that you will have
| food TO sustain You, shelter to protect
| YOU.
| Yon 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 yon
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 dogs
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-
morrows sunrise and tonight's fair
stars; In the coming Of the spring
time and the sprlnging 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 1t was not
faith but judgment that had fled from
them.
Voltaire, a wise man in many things,
snid and wrote much that was fool
ish. 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
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
have and all that we are assured
of the future must be altogether Il
matter of hope, and hope depends
entirely on faith
Faith Is not credulty.
The man who hopes for the I'm
possible cannot have faith in his
hopes. Genuine faith is based on truth
which is Interchangeable 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 faith
we cannot, and our effort always
should be to strengthen and sustain
it.
Faith and hope are our mental
clutches and the lamer we are the
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
D only turned away for moment from
y the light which God has mercifully
$ given to all Of us and the darkness
J. frightens and overwhelms you.
& Turn back. Your faith will return.
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