Without Faith it is impossible to please Him.— Heb. 11: 6.
The remarkable statement given above, taken from what Mr. Gladstone calls, "The great epic of Faith," —is, strange to say, very unfamiliar to thousands of professing Christians. There are many quite willing to admit frankly that they do not possess what is demanded here; and others, and by no means a small number of individuals, seem to regard this condition as an evidence of intellectual superiority. This is doubtless due to the unfortunate confounding of Faith with something wholly different from it,—even credulousness.
It may be well to note at the start, that these two widely differing conditions of thought are nearly always mistaken for each other, and it is only when the deceived heart grows weary of feeding on ashes, that its ceaseless demand for the real, causes it at length to find the Faith of the Son of God.
