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may bring you --- then, and not until then, good friend, will you begin to know what is LIFE.

Chapter 24 - LET US HAVE FAITH. - p. 83

Faith necessary in every human undertaking --- You have faith in man, but are afraid to trust GOD --- The Universe if governed by Law --- The Law is in operation everywhere --- Don't be afraid --- You are a part of the plan --- Fall in with the Law --- Have faith, have faith.
When you take a journey by rail, you step into the car, settle yourself, take out a book and read, and give little or no thought to the engine or engineer in charge of the train. You go rushing across the country at the rate of fifty miles an hour, with no thought of possible disaster or accident, and for the time forgetting that there is such a person in existence as the engineer. You have absolute faith in the careful management of the road, and in the intelligence of the man who has been placed in the engine. The lives of yourself and hundreds of fellow passengers are practically in the hands of one man, and that man is a stranger to you --- you have never seen him --- you know nothing of his qualifications --- you only know that the management has picked him out to safely conduct you across the country.
You take a steamship to Europe and place yourselves in the hands of a few men who are total strangers to you. You stake your life on their skill, judgment and intelligence. You feel that they would not be where they are unless the management of the line considered them competent. It is all a matter of trust --- of confidence. The same thing is true when you take your seat on a trolley car or on the elevated railroad, or even in a stage coach or a private carriage. In each case you place yourself in the charge of another person in whom you have a certain amount of confidence, although he may be comparatively, or wholly, unknown to you.
You place your wealth in a bank, having confidence in its management. You have business dealings with men whom you scarcely know, trusting to their honesty of purpose. In every transaction in life you are compelled to have confidence in people. Your lawyer, your physician, your grocer, your clerks are all taken on faith. One cannot get away from it. If confidence were destroyed the wheels of modern life would stop in a minute. The so-called hard-headed practical man may sneer at Faith, but it underlies every manifestation of the life of this civilization.
Man has faith and confidence in Man, but is afraid to trust GOD. He looks about him and sees millions of worlds, each in