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He declared that he was not an infidel, who denied the Scriptures and wished to remain in unbelief; on the contrary, he was desirous to believe, as he experienced no happiness in having his religious opinions so unsteady and unfixed. But he could not, he added, understand the Scriptures.
This, then, is the very essence of the teaching of Jesus, that unbelief in the limitless power of Life-in-ourselves in each of us is the one cause of Death and of all those evils which, in greater or lesser measure, reproduce the restrictive influences which deprive Life of its fulness and joy. If we would escape Death and enter into Life, we must each believe in the I am in ourselves.
He, whose advent is intended for the encouragement of men to exercise their reason and their conscience; whose exhortation is "he that hath ears to hear, let him hear;" that pure Being, who is the chief preacher of Humility, and the great teacher of man's responsible condition surely, he would hardly come in any way astoundingly miraculous, addressing his advent not to faith, but to sight, and challenging the impossibility of unbelief by a galaxy of spiritual wonders.
"Indeed, had you but seen the half of life that I have seen," said he unthinkingly, "it might amaze you what manner of man a maid may love or at least may marry. Come, Cynthia, what fault do you find with him?" "Why, every fault." He laughed in unbelief. "And whom are we to blame for all these faults that have turned you so against him?" "Whom?" "Yourself, Cynthia. You use him ill, child.
That's where you left it," interrupted the officer. "Yes. I fired at Northrup as he rushed me." "Um-hu," assented Jones, impudent unbelief in his eye. "At Northrup or at Macdonald." "What do you think I did with the money, then? Did I eat it?" "Not so you could notice it. Since you put it to me flat-foot, you gave it to your pardners. You didn't want it. They did.
It is instructive to notice how men who have had the very best advantages, and the greatest knowledge, are, nevertheless, prone to unbelief. Christ appeared to his disciples, and upbraided them because they believed not them which said he was risen. Their incredulity strikes us as marvellous. They were not the first, nor the last, whose want of faith is a marvel.
If, then, God the Father has put you into Christ, and is seeking to establish you in Him, be careful to resist every temptation or suggestion to depart from living fellowship by any act of disobedience or unbelief.
Why, do but see now how the Holy Ghost, for our help, doth hedge up that way in at which unbelief would come, that there might, as to this, be no room left for doubting.
Baker Jorgen turned his thick body. "Here we go about imagining a whole lot of things; but what if it's all just lies?" "That's the mind of an unbeliever!" said Jeppe, and stamped violently on the floor. "God preserve my mind from unbelief!" retorted brother Jorgen, and he stroked his face gravely. "But a man can't very well help thinking. And what does a man see round about him?
Fleda was quietly crying all the way down the hill. At the foot of the hill, Mr. Carleton resolutely slackened his pace. "I have one consolation," he said, "my dear Elfie you will have the less to leave for me." She put her hand with a quick motion upon his, and roused herself. "She is a beautiful rebuke to unbelief. But she is hardly to be mourned for, Elfie."
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