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waters." "Ment" means mind, from the Latin word "Mens." We call a firm mind "Faith."
If you see a tailor cut up a long strip of broadcloth, you know he will bring forth a beautiful coat from the apparently useless cuttings. This is confidence in the correctness of a process. We see the sick child receiving the right thoughts of a practitioner or healer, and we commence to believe, although there is no sign of healing as yet, that the healing has begun. We have this confidence in our life conditions when our affirmations are working.
Paul noticed that the people who accepted the Christian ideas had moments of great exultation, then they suddenly fell into deep depression. He said, "Call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions." He saw how often it happened. Moses called trials "water". We have it in poetry and song to this day. "When peace like a river flows over my soul, when sorrows like sea billows roll," etc. Again, "The waters of sorrow are drowning my hopes." Then is the time, says Moses, when we must show firmness.
He who shows firmness in the midst of surging miseries solidifies a firm character. He makes a substance of his mind. Faith in the success of Good, when evil seems to be harrowing your life, will act like a gallant ship plowing the stormy main.
People often know the "promise" passages of the Bible by heart, but when trouble strikes them they have no confidence in them as absolute Truth. Just once holding on to them when you are in trouble would give you a good start in faith. Holding on to the great principles set forth in Scripture, while you are in trouble, will invigorate your character marvelously. It is the very mystery of godliness. How sure people are to come out right who have a strong, honest confidence that they will come out right! It is a perfect proof of the teachings of Jesus
