Show GREAT l' l FAITH AITH NECESSARY IN ACQUIREMENT OF KNOWLEDGE At St. St Marks Mark's cathedral Sunday morn morn- Ing ng Bishop F. F S. S Spalding preached the tho following able sermon taking his text from rom II Corinthians 7 For Forne Vie ne walk by faith alth faith not by sight St St. Paul contrasts faith with sight less ess thoughtful thinkers contrast it with reason cason or knowledge said Bishop Spalding Faith is making assumptions as- as and acting on them Faith Faiths is s seeing that which is invisible Faith Faitha Is a that pow power r which gives a It substance to o what we n hope for ld e ce of the rutn of tImings things not seen It will be seen een that faith enters into all reasonIng reason- reason Ing ng is ill a step in the acquirement mt of all knowledge Mr 1 Darwin conceived the idea of organic organic or- or ganic anic evolution it was faith which grasped rasped the generalization and gave ave him patience to experiment and gather facts to o establish wits with greater certainty a theory which was as at first accepted by faith alth Our forefathers conceived of ot a republican form of government So by faith alth the Republic of the United States was as organized Even r after years certainty has not come and we still till have faith alth rather than absolute confidence Inthe in inie the tue ie permanency of ot our national form of ot govErnment A prophet catches a glimpse of f what seems to be fuller truth in the UIA sphere here of morals Through the mists of lila his R moral incapacity and the clouds of ot othis his s intellectual insufficiency the tIme light of truth uth and love and righteousness sends senda a beam and l he lie proclaims his IS message and nd men are gradually aN lifted te to higher GlaneR of living Whether therefore It be science CW in civics cl In morals moral no or in l t beeri beri n wi j I and never ne while we are in this world below be be- low where her we wo see Sec through a glass Ilass but darkly together will without It knowledge faith bo be able to do ao al altogether at ai- |