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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. Grounds at Jmst in Mark iv. 40: And he said unto them, NVhy are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith ? IN our human relations, to withhold confidence where confidence has been deserved, is justly held to be one of the surest signs of an ignoble temper. Now how far, according to this rule, are we honourably bound to have trust in God ? How far are our relations to Him analogous to human relations, so that distrust, want of faith, is of that kind which in regard to a fellow-man would, with all generous natures, reflect deep discredit upon ourselves ? For this is the ultimate ground of appeal. Religion is a personal relation?the relation of person to Person. It is not simply a state of human character; that is Morality: it is our whole inward and outward life, as that life is sustained, coloured and inspired by our personal relations with God. Whatever secret strength would pass away from us, whatever hues of rich colour would be taken out of our existence, whatever hopes would haveno support, if God was nothing to us, and we were simply left alone with our own nature?all that belongs to Religion. Without Religion we might have all that Philosophy, all that a noble or prudential Morality, all that Knowledge, can bestow; we should lose all that depends on Faith. For Religion carries us quite beyond isolated human nature and its laws: it gives us a Heavenly Arm to lean on, an infinite Life to draw from: it is reliance in regard to all that is yet unknown legitimately growing out of our own experiences. Faith is no arbitrary demand that God makes on man: He establishes His claim upon it, before He asks it from us. Faith, however different in its nature from logical certainty, has yet its own sufficient evidence, and in sensibility to this evidence main...
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