Excerpt from "God's World V1"
If we set aside faith, what is there left? We know that we did not create ourselves. We have no reason to believe that we selected the date and place and manner of our birth. We know that we have nothing to say about the hour of our passing. We are unfamiliar with the forces of Nature in which we live and of which we are a part. We are but fragments in the affairs of our own governments. Everywhere we turn, we meet conditions beyond our control, and yet we are confident that tomorrow will find us well and happy and successful.
Often this confidence, so far as reason and judgment go, is based on a few men in charge of great affairs. The employee in an office has faith that his employer will keep the business going. The employer, who is in debt to the bankers, is confident that the bankers will see him through. The bankers, who depend upon the the depositors, are certain that no sudden demand will be made upon them for the deposits.
And yet believing in other mortals, we find contentment and faith. And if we could gather together all the mortals on the earth and all those in the spirit-world, and added up the sum-total of their powers, the result would not be comparable with the power of God Almighty even in the ratio of an atom compared with all of the matter that comprises our world.
If we are not to have faith in the Cause that gave us life, then how can we have faith in anybody or anything? We see honest and morally good and dependable people in our own neighborhoods, in our cities, in our countries; but the greatest goodness and the greatest dependability of any man are not to be mentioned in the same breath with the goodness and greatness and dependability of the Creator.
No man, or combination of men, brought this universe into being. Yet we find ourselves believing in men. We find many times that our trust was not belied - it was well placed. Suppose we had proportionate faith in God: Would we not be qualified to regard any hardship, any obstacle, as all right, as perfectly natural, as presaging some great good that would come at some future time, but that previously was not revealed to us?
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Few of us store up a sufficient food supply to last us many days, and yet we are not fearful that we shall go without food. Millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions pass along earth's mortal trail living "from hand to mouth," from day to day. Somehow they get through. Often when they seemed to have reached the very end of their resources, something occurred that gave them a new opportunity.
No matter what our claims may be, irrespective of how much weight we may put upon our powers of reason, if we but pause to analyze ourselves and our fellow-beings, we shall make the discovery that of all the qualities in mankind, faith stands at the top.
The helpless babe has greater faith in his mother than the greatest man ever had in God. Life without faith would not be life. Reason and logic may seem to prove certain contentions and theories. But where it satisfies one person, faith is carrying millions of others through the trials of life safely and securely.
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Sometimes the trials of life are severe. Things go wrong. Hardship pile upon hardship, handicap follows handicap, sickness and loss of property and the death of dear ones make life a fearful burden. And yet when one's faith is sufficient, even though one may bend under the blows and be prostrated with sorrow, there is still that loyal belief that eventually things will work out - that sometime, somewhere and in some manner things will be different.
The greater one's belief in God and His Natural Law, the greater blessings one is to receive throughout one's life.
