Faith and Belief by A. P. Barton

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Aug 23, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 34.

Faith and Belief

By A. P. Barton

FAITH heals, while belief allows the work to be done. Faith can not exist in degrees—it is absolute. It is the point in the progress of belief, in its conquest of the mind, where the last vestige of doubt goes out. So long as there is the least taint of doubt about the ability of the Word to do the work, it is not faith. But just as soon as the last shade of shadow is removed from the focalized point of the ray of truth, and it is allowed to shine clearly, even to the meager measurement of a grain of mustard, the efficiency to do the thing desired, the thing toward which the Word is directed, is absolutely resistless.—A. P. Barton.