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The Commoner.
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JTJNB 20, 1913
FAITH TRIUMPHANT
(Continued from Pago 13.)
it ought to be, we ought to examine
our own civic conduct to gee whether
any of its ugliness comes from us;
and I am afraid that we shall all
become conscious if we examine
closely that we have not at all times
done all that we might have done
to improve the appearance of our
government.
Faith in the government under
which we live does not mean that wo
shall not see its defects. Faith in
our government does not mean that
we shall not admit its faults. Faith
in our government will lead us to
do with our government as the
parent does with the child.
The parent is not blind to the
faults of a child; but the parent sees
the possibilities of that child, and in
affection corrects the child when the
child goes wrong, and tries to help
the child to realize its possibilities.
So it is in this country. We
must have faith in our form of
government, and, having faith in it,
try to perfect it. If there -is a weak
point in its method, strengthen it.
If there is a defect in its. structure,
eradicate the defect; and, as we
make the government better, we
shall enjoy it more; and thus our
interest in it will be quickened to
scan it still further for still further
improvement. '
I have said that a man must hav6
faith in himself, and to have faith
in himself he must build a foundar
tion for that faith; I have said-that
a man must liave faith in his fellow
men, that he muBt attach himself to
them, that he must work with them,
and that he must try with them to
lift up the level upon which they all
stand. And I have said that he
must .have faith in hfcj form of gov
ernment, and, having faith, must
try to "make it better wherever it
can be improved.
But back of all these different
kinds of faith there must be faith
in God. For, if a man has not faith
in God, he can not plan a life. He
can not see things in- their correct
relation to one another. Ay, if he
has not faith in God, how does he
know that back of every righteous
cause is an arm strong enough to
bring victory to his side and with
out that what can man c!o?
There never was a time in this
country's history when men needed
faith in God more than they need
it today. This faith in God a man
must have if he would measure up
to life's responsibilities today. There
is work to be accomplished, and it
can not be undertaken except by
those who have faith.
An old colored preacher gave the
best illustration of faith that I have
ever heard. He said that faith was
willingness to do what God told us
to do, without asking questions; and
then to illustrate it he said, "If God
tells me to butt my head against a
stone wall, I butt; that is my part;
going through the wall is the Lord's
part." I know of no better illustra
tion, and the people that have ac
complished great things are the
people that have faith to butt their
heads against what seemed a stone
wall and trusted to God to open the
way.
How would this world make pro
gress without men of faith? While
the timid conform themselves to en-
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the environment and make a new en
vironment. Where would this world
have been but for thoso who were
ready to die to prove their faith?
Where would the Christian church
have been today, had it not been for
the men who had the faith to believe
that, if they died for their roligion,
their death would accomplish more
than their lives could accomplish?
And who can tell whether life or
death is the thing that the world
needs? Look back, and see what
death has accomplished, and then
ask yourself whether living could al
ways do what death has often done.
In that book entitled "Quo Vadis,"
you will remember, there is a story
of a man whoso conduct makes you
more angry as you read on, and you
remember that at last he betrayed
the Christians; and then, when these
men whom he betrayed were being
used by a cruel emperor as human
torches set fire to light the gardens,
this man who was responsible for
their detection rode with the em
peror that he might witness their
agonies in the flames; and he came
in front of one whom he had most
deeply wronged; and there that
Christian hanging in the fire, instead
of being angry, smiled and forgave
him.
And then he became a new man;
and, leaving his triumphant friends,
he knelt in front of the burning
figure, and With a radiant faco he
sat down' among them, and had the
strength to bear the suffering with
those he had made suffer. That is
the faith that moves the world, and
in the command of this land today
Wo need men of faith. "
Do 'you find it hard to Relieve that
Sodom and Gomorrah would have
b.een saved it they could have lound
a few religions men? Why, a few
religious men can save any com
munity in thig land today." We need
men who will stand up for the right
without stopping to count to see how
many are with them. How can a
man tell what his example will do
until he sets an example that is cal
culated to do something?
There is not a community where
a man who has faith can not work
miracles today. Tell me that mira
cles are impossible; there is no mira
cle recorded in human literature
that is more wonderful and marvel
lous than the change that takes place
in a human heart when a man be
gins to hate the things he loves and
love the things he hates; and that
miracle is reached when some nian's
faith has revealed to a dying world
that there iB a God.
We pay that the man who is on
the battle-field, and is willing to
face the enemy and die from the
enemy's hand, is brave. He is. Ho
has given the best physical test that
man can give of his devotion. But
mora courage is as high an attribute
as physical courage, ay, higher than
physical courage. We share physi
cal courage with the brutes about us,
but God alone can give us an illus
tration of the moral courage that a
man exhibits when he dies rather
than surrender what he believes is
right.
We need faith faith .'n one's self,
supported by a preparation that
backs it, faith in our fellow men
that links us to the struggling mass
of the world, faith in our govern
ment to make it what the fathers
wanted it to be when they baptized
it in the beginning with blood; and
faith in God so that we know that,
whether or not we live to share the
victory, every blow struck for Right
eousness will have it influence, and
that no word spoken for truth is. in
vain. Faith is the controlling in
fluence in a life.
I conclude as I began. Without it
it is impossible to please God; with
out it it is Impossible to do anything
worth while.
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