| Show OP OF This Is II nn arm age Dle of skepticism It Is of oe inquiry Till The tendency th direction of general doubt Faith In h it full sense Is rate It is III also Wry very little understood People generally nr arC averse to accepting In a ot trust and con confidence One roam son lion I Is 1 because falsehood hood Is so 0 prevalent word and In deed This Is great greatly ly Iy tobe deplored For while It is 18 not d that the human mind should acc t without question everything that 1 presented in a plausible WRY way or from people who appear to tie be sincere yet e faith and confidence ar are essential happiness and perfection of the individual and to the welfare of society clelY In God la Is the tho fIrst principle of Without faith It Is bl i to pl ntO God No ono one wilt will at ap approach p the tho Deity In prayer or by de desire sire who does docs not believe In a Supreme Being Delna True pith lends leads to right action It H Inspires obedience to divine divIno corn com Obedience to Got God Is proc religion Without It there thero Is no flO such religIon T True faith comprehends something I more than iMn Is ordinarily understood by ui thet ft rm rm 11 His 18 a prInciPle of It force Dy By Its exercise all ull those marvelous events ent recorded In svere brought about A nurn num her bi It cf thorn them ar are summarized In the ele th of the epIstle to th the It is I stated that holy peo pIt pie In eM olden en times through faith clued aut kingdoms wrought righteousness promises stopped time tho mouths of 01 quenched the violence of time Iho edge of the sword out ot of Weakness v were made strong waxed all t In fight turned to flight the ot of the aliens alieni women receIved their dead raised to life again etc Jesus of taught the doe doc doctrine trine that all things thing are possible to th ht that believe Modern Christen has departed from that doctrine and to a 11 large extent has utterly dialed It H and In instances Instance hiss has d It Jut sacred hIstory records sO PO many Instances of marvelous things aCcomplished b by faith that only cannot bo be correct d Ch Christians den deny the tho facts or reject the tho principle The testimony of living witnesses In our ourn ri n Age the narrations ot of ih the s scriptures s They also prove that neither a truth nor 1 a force changes with i th th time lapse of time God is III tho yesterday today toda end forever So SourO urO aro this las which are time the laws of nature Faith ol tuI as II a healing It has power over ocr material tImings J It Iti i hi not hat In time tho full of mortals If it were they would often otten no doubt exercise It In n a contrary to divide purposes Disease has its It mu ui Idon n In time the of the tho universe lain Is educational Death Is an ex cx ilc essential to time tho eternal progress rees ress or of our race l FaIth Is such n a that brill by it exercise disease can be ar arrested rested and itself be overcome ItIs It Is 18 the rower power by br which the worlds were made rind the order exhibited In the tho gOvernment or of the tho ht b In D Deity It It Is In full tull perfection in n man muon It II is In iii embryo But Dut It is 18 nn an attribute of o mo as I a son cit lf God Oo 0 Eider In the Irest present nt Church of Christ and no Prophet or lu former times ever the power lii In to work miracles hel heal the or cr rio nn au of those timings that are wrought by faith Even I Christ himself invariably the per song Bons who sho restored at ls Ills touch or 11 Ills word wont Th Thy faith fath hath mae tIme tho whole The Inn Invitation usual usually Ii ly tended to the Elders 11 is I It was to theIr ot of old to palson pal son cuan arm ort off and put It on again ur or leol heal everybody In eight shows the deplorable le ignorance as aa il 1 n As sorry lorry skepticism ot of the tho who thul thus sneer against the lf f time tho loer loero o The They oler no the they deSire to ridicule that they thuy d noL un understand Nth Faith though so 80 at a diunt discount tn tn the present t ale age Is nn an eternal mm a Godlike attribute 1 a spiritual force fo ce hat wi continua and wi swill b bit dc ed In the suns and daughters IOP or t the tho Everlasting aa s the rl moll until they Clr come UJ In the tun Image and glory glor of p perfected be lug While In mortality I it wi will be man Ir wills and a as tho they work In harmony Hs Ills Purposes or the b fit of thu sick an and tl the the ot of obstacles tl overcoming cf t the tho world the flesh and the doI devil r and nd salvation of man mankInd kin kInd It should be 1 1 cultivated by tJ e ciery et believer ellee In lilon and every ef promoter o oc the welfare 0 of |
