p. 315 | Increase Our Faith by I. G. Camp

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 28, 1868

Increase Our Faith

By I. G. Camp

SISTER I. G. CAMP writes from E. Bethel, Vt.: Without faith it is impossible to please God. Then how appropriate the prayer, Lord increase our faith. The moment our confidence is strong in God, as the creator and upholder of all things, and as the giver of every good and perfect gift, it is then that our hearts will be drawn out in love for so great and good a being; and then what a hungering and thirsting after righteousness, to have all our words and acts such as shall correspond with his blessed will and word. What a love for all whose hearts beat in unison with his, and for all those self-denying, sanctifying truths so inseparably connected with his cause and people. Lord increase our faith. Bless the laborers. Speedily raise up, qualify, and send forth, more laborers into the wide harvest field.

The following appropriate lines on Faith, I copy from memory. I know not who is their author:

“The faith that unites with the Lamb; And brings such salvation as this, Is more than mere notion or name, The work of the Spirit it is. A principle, active and young, That lives under pressure and load, That makes out of weakness more strong, And draws the soul upward to God. It treads on the world and on hell, It vanquishes death and despair, And oh! let us wonder to tell, It overcomes Heaven by prayer. Permits a vile worm of the dust, With God to commune as his friend, To hope his forgiveness as just, And look for his love to the end.”