Article December 2, 1911 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from T. Rhonda Williams, Charles Reynolds Brown, Roger S. Forbes, W. H. Fitchett

[British Congregationalist.]

There is not much building to be done with the thing a man does not believe. His only substance is his positive faith. Believing never so little, he must hold his faith firmly and his doubt tentatively. If he believes in God, though his doubts be many, he must begin to shape his life on a faith in God. If he believes in the persistence of life, though through mists of questionings, he believes too much to be a practical materialist. His faith is positive, as far as it goes, and he must give it authority up to its limits. On the smallest nucleus of positive faith, if he is wise and brave, he must begin to shape his character. It is all he has for the making of moral and spiritual manhood. He must stand on that, crying ever to the great Lord of all, "I believe; help thou my unbelief."

And as he is an honest thinker he must grapple with his doubts in the light of his faith. There are areas of unbelief in many lives that exist because they have not the courage of their convictions, because they have not dared or cared to follow out the logical road of their beliefs. They are in the position of one accepting both the premises of an argument, and yet hesitating to draw the conclusion. Having so much faith, their very reason ought to carry them further. And he who has rested his life on his faith, however small, and lived out that, will find that in that very fact he has commenced an assault upon the regions of his doubts, and that he must and will reclaim fresh areas of his mind and heart from unbelief.

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