Show MR FAITH the personality of thomas A edison whose chos 2 oble noble spirit has jut just passed on n has had a profound influence over jover american people they have been deeply impressed by the ie of the power of scientific knowledge the they hye have seen min him take natural forces which seemed far beyond human huiban control and so handle them as to produce human comfort and solve olve the problems of daily I 1 life naturally maicy mandof bf them have reached the conclusion that science solves all problems and that the scientific person is the one who finds n the correct solution of the worlds tro troubles libles the he general impression that mr edison was an agnostic in in his is religious belief has undoubtedly swayed many persons toward that line of thinking feeling that this man of marvellous marcellous marv ellous achievement was able to form no ions whatever about the forces that underlie life and this universe they decided that it was useless for them to try to cevelo develop p anything that could be called faith I 1 such ones should note the statements now made by mi Edi sons intimate friends henry ford for fil instance stance says ne be was a deeply religious man in the me hest liest sense of the word it seems to be the case that while he did not assen assentato tto adv formal creed yet vet that lie he thoroughly ehly believed that the world is ruled by ii a governing intelligence of infinite power once this admission is made rind and this belief is formulated one must have faith that the power that governs the world will at least see that auw is don the armstic conception implies that the world is a 9 kind of moral chaos where virtue is no more profitable than vice where abere there is no incentive to right doing where evil triumphs ov over r gorr genrl tf thi c world as mr edison believed is mildd bv nn nil nl au wise intelligence then one catl can have faith that all will li well for those who try to do what is right and conform to the dictates of their own consciences |