Show COMMENTS ON FAITH I 1 have belon belonged ed to the church 4 I 1 of jesus chast christ of latter day dalt saints sainte for about six years year art for the last few months I 1 have been beell stud studying I 1 g the lectures on faith huud toun in the book ot of doctrine ani covenants I 1 have learned that we do pod dively get all we eat and wear by our balth flaith the lectures prove th tb beyond a doubt from the NOW new testament paul says in telling y what faith faath is now faith is tb V substance assurance of thing hoped for the evidence of thaw not seen 11 from this we learn thi faith is the assurance which belal m ra have of the existence of things which they have not seen and 18 the very principle of action in this country where we eat coro cow bread we believe we can get meal mw by taking corn to the mill stud and WO W believe it so strongly ugly that our bath forces us to action we go to the mill believing we will get our breadstuff at p prepared re there tf if we did not believe e we ul get our grinding 88 90 we call it done we would not go f the mill at all we believe we wa a gather a crop or we would not phew t and so we can bee how faith 0 row us to action and it it the t prin olP 10 makes US act so SG we see that wit out faith we would not act it if we y did not believe we would gather WO we p would not plant without IWO 4 both mind and body would be in a mw state of inactivity and so BO we can see plainly that we get all our food and tUt aument au nent by faith in fact all we have we e get by faith and as faith is the malu mainspring spring m 1 I temporal concerns so it is in spiritual Pi ritual for it is said that without it 1 is possible impossible to please god w we we may have faith enough to get and d make a good living and then 1086 our place in heaven if we have nave not faith enough to come forward and be baptized for the remis on of our sins we will surely lose our place in heaven now a man may ay say he believes and he may amot at but if he believes strongly wat that belief will force him to action in temporal or in spiritual concerns I 1 know now this to be true we may take an unbeliever who dont care for violating the laws of our father in heaven he is liable to 10 commit any sin but take a man vrho ho believes that our father will punish pettish him and he will be more careful how he violates the heaven ly y law aw and the stronger he believes the we less he will break the law then vainly plainly ye we can see that faith alor corces C a man to action I 1 believe a man can learn faith little by little and line upon line un til ula he can get in possession of faath which chic is I 1 power dwer and when in possession 0 of f aft it he can perform wonders ay faith we understand that god med the worlds by the word of ua this is the tool that our vather other used in framing the worlds ad it is proven plainly in the doc tribe ne and covenants the apostles asked ked jesus once why could not we e cast him out because of your unbelief 11 answered he for verily I 1 RRY you if ye have faith as a calr sr of mustard seed ye shall say to this mountain remove hence to 0 o yonder place and it shall remove alad wi nothing shall be impossible unto you matt 1920 19 20 por or a man to move a moun wa aln would take power I 1 would call it great power sart faith it ia Is P proved beyond a doubt that Is ia power and without power there aare could have been no creation ow it seems to me that if any man would ouid read those lectures he could y alot hel help seeing ming the inspiration in thera uen aurely surely men dont look at the matter ater right or they could see it I 1 ce see what excuse men can avenor aie for not seeing it I 1 was raised malsed a very wicked man bave awa swallowed flowed 17 inches of solid steel d a sword for a living but I 1 ort follow that now I 1 can see that by ew joseph smith was inspired just aft hose abose lectures even if I 1 had no other Jes testimony but I 1 have others which are as good bood would it not be well for all the doubt anto ints to study y those lectures no they will say oh I 1 have alth 11 I 1 have r aut jtb learned that long ago we may ask aak them if they can they th remove 0 mountains if they banit can t 41 la nave have not ot learned faith there as lou ion something banto to learn about faith as acif anaf as we cant can remove mountains of we may study on the principle aa aaa a a mustard until we get a grain as large seed NOW ow I 1 think most of us have something to learn about faith and why not go to work and laa learn rn it without delay I 1 read a sermon by president john taylor about four years ago in which he said the lord had more for his people and would give it to them as soon as they lived up to what they had received or what they had heard now would we not do well to turn baek back to baker and spell through again probably we may know our lesson better after we turn back and go through it again your brother in the cause of truth JAMES bamm SMITH SENECA S C february 28 1889 |