Faith, Its True Position in the Life of Man

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Excerpt from Faith, Its True Position in the Life of Man: A Discourse, Preached November 22d, 1874, in the Chapel of Rutgers CollegeThe whole substance of this conception is borrowed from Christianity, as indeed are all the great things of Mohamm'edan ism. The very Allah of the Moslems isbut the Eloah of the Old Testament, divested, 'alas! Of some of His most glorious perfections, and always has it been held as a fundamental doc trine among Christians that he who cometh to God must believe sh? He is, and that He is a rewarder of such as diligently seek Him. Before Homer or Hesiod wrote, the prophets of Israel had said: If I ascend into heaven, Thou art, there if I make my bed in hell, behold Thou art there. Say not in thine heart who shall ascend into heaven? Or who shall descend into the deep? For the word is nigh thee in thy mouth and in my heart. With Christianity, faith is more than any talisman, it not only moves mountains, and summons into view the heavenly king doms, but it binds the soul in living union to the Son of God, and brings it to the embraces of the Everlasting Father. Every reader of the Holy Scriptures knows the high place faith is made to occupy by Jesus Christ, and by His apostles and prophets indeed, it is so interwoven with the whole system of the revelation of God to man, that for us both must stand or fall together. That faith as a principle should therefore. Be assailed by the enemies. Of Christ need not surprise us, for the destruction of faith in a man is, in effect, for him the annihilation of the objects which it discerns, even as the destruction of the sight is for the man who suffers it the annihilation of the light itself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.