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I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

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Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

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If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

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Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past.

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The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.

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If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

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If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

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Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

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Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

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We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 21st, 1811

Died: June 18th, 1884

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