How great is the peace and how manifold are the blessings of those who keep the faith! The Psalmist says, "The Lord preserveth the faithful" (Ps. 31: 23), and the Revelator tells us that they receive the "crown of life" (Rev. 2: 10). Says the great prophet of this age, Mary Baker Eddy, "Faith full-fledged, soaring to the Horeb height, brings blessings infinite, and the spirit of this orison is the fruit of rightness,— 'on earth peace, good will toward men'" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 281).
The Scriptures abound in numerous instances, both before and after the Christian era, where men have healed the sick, raised the dead, and found refuge from danger through hope and absolute faith in God's omnipotence. Abraham through faith obeyed God's command to leave his country and kinsmen for a strange land without knowing where he went. By faith Moses defied the wrath of Pharaoh, forsook Egypt, and led the children of Israel through the Red Sea on dry land. It was his sublime and lofty faith in the almightiness of good that enabled Jesus to prove the nothingness of evil and his dominion over it. Mrs. Eddy also had this sublime faith, which enabled her to prove evil's nothingness. These experiences and many others that could be cited illustrate how this understanding faith in the unseen has operated throughout human history to save and to heal. They afford comforting assurance that as we demonstrate this faith we shall find refuge from the many inventions of evil that are appearing in these latter days.
The, faith that works such marvels among men is not of human origin. According to St. Paul, it is one of the fruits of the Spirit It proceeds from Soul and relies upon Principle. It is not temporal, but evidences an eternal spiritual quality of man, as God's idea, which may he expressed by the individual in his human experience
