Article October 18, 1900 Issue

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In an article on "Faith" in the (Baptist) Standard we find the following: "Many apologize for faith as if it were merely a temporary expedient to brook over our present lack of knowledge. Faith on the contrary is a higher method than knowledge. It is not that by which we accept what cannot be known about the past, nor that by which we look forward to what cannot be proved concerning the future, nor that which enables us to walk blindly in the present; but it is that grace which brings us into unison with God and keeps us there. Hence it is 'the victory that overcometh the world.' "

A contributor to the New-Church Messenger says: "When we perceive from our affections, inclinations, thoughts, and conduct, that we are cross, petulant, irritable, that for these qualities of life we generally see the cause in other persons and things, and not in ourselves; when we delight in constantly comparing ourselves with others to our credit and the discredit of the others, then let us remember that the Son of man suffered for and died to these and all other sins that he might be able to demonstrate to the world his divine human perfection, and ask the children of men to follow him in the regeneration."

The (Episcopalian) Church Standard has the following: "A dispatch from Pittsburg tells of a remarkable scene when Charles V. Culver, a bankrupt, presented himself before the United States District Court to file the necessary papers. He was accompanied by Jacob J. Wyckoff, one of his largest creditors, to whom he owed $222,257. As the papers were signed Culver said to his companion, 'There goes thy $200,000.' Wyckoff responded, 'It is all right, Friend Culver; I know thee would have paid me had thee been able.' This is Christianity, not in word only, but in deed and in truth."

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