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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 24, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 46.

Faith

By Editor

Faith.—We recently read in an otherwise good little article: "In things temporal faith is power wherever you find it." By the "things temporal" is meant, as the connection shows, the matters of the world among worldly people. But we do not find faith there. The world does not know faith. It has "confidence" and "believes," but it does not have faith. Every successful man in this world, from a worldly view-point, is so either through certain calculations involving cause and effect, or by chance, or by a combination of both, with of course more or less courage and force of character on his part. But his best calculation often fails; his prizes in chance are often blank; his courage, daring, skill, and shrewdness are often met by greater in his opponents; but faith never fails, never can fail. It is not founded on human calculation. It is not founded on men's ideas in any way; it is founded on the solid rock of God's word. Doubt fails, presumption fails, carnal belief fails, faith never.