Faith, Its True Position in the Life of Man : a Discourse, Preached November 22d, 1874, in the Chapel of Rutgers College
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In the one case it is the assurance of sight, in the other it is the assurance of faith ; and the one is as strong as the other, but as much higher as heaven is'above the earth. IS It were as easy to show in detail, how in its hundred revela- tions the Christian religion manifests its self-evidencing power. Out of a multitude let us select one. Can it be doubted that among a.11 the inhabiters of this world, and especially among those who reflect upon man's condition and destiny, or upon whom th...ere fall with peculiar heaviness the unexplained sorrows of life, there is a consciousness of orphanage ? Impelled by this, the earnest men of the world have sought after God, and the sad- dest sight in all history is the great Plato gazing upward toward his unapproachable idea, and hearing no voice nor answer to call a gleam from the face upon which for years upon years no man saw a smile. The aged face would have shone with light if Plato could have seen and heard and believed in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, or if at any time in his solitude, when there came upon him the consciousness of an endless want, the longing, indestruct- ible, and forever unsatisfied, there fell a still, small voice, like that which came to Elijah upon the mount, when he wrapped his face in his mantle, " I am thy Creator and Father.
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