The Perfection of Our Faith
by J. G. Morrison

CONTENTS  (44 pages)
1. THE LAW OF FAITH
2. WHAT IS FAITH?
3. THE TIME ELEMENT IN FAITH
4. FAITH IN ITS RELATION TO SALVATION
5. FAITH FOR ACHIEVEMENT
6 ALL POWER RELEASED OVER FAITH
7. THE PERFECTING OF OUR FAITH
8.. FAITH AND REWARDS
9. FAITH AND PRESUMPTION

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Mankind is possessed with a faith faculty at birth. This automatically reaches out and connects itself with other human beings about us, and receives comfort, consolation and soul sustenance.  Many persons can clearly remember when first they doubted the human beings around them. What dark dread and horror possessed the childish mind. Some children are so tricked and beguiled as to grow up without any faith in parents or neighbors. When properly reared, a child has natural and almost perfect faith in parents. This, when suitably trained may extend itself naturally to the great heavenly Father, and that child rejoice in a juvenile conversion that is real and delightful. Faith in God is begotten in one because of evidence. It may be the testimony of others, or the evidence that gathers around the Bible, but it is reasonable evidence that stirs one’s faith faculty.  “Our chief difficulty today, seems to be that we can scarcely bring ourselves to become desperate in the matter of putting the cause of salvation across.

The circumstances of our lives are so convenient, we live so comfortably, we are protected on almost every side, cushions, rocking chairs and deeply upholstered autos abound; food is plentiful, danger for the most part at a distance, electricity floods our homes with light, luxurious trains, with diners and sleepers, bear us swiftly across the country; not much is exacted of us that is grinding, hard, or taxing, and our faith has grown so flabby, that many cannot keep themselves decently saved, to say nothing of endeavoring to accomplish anything.

We look for a Christianity that moves along the lines of least resistance, that disturbs us not, that continues to lull us to sleep, and to keep things going easy. Our efforts at achievement are largely damned because of the innate laziness that has afflicted the age, and through the age, entered the fiber of our own souls. Our faith becomes infected with the ease-loving tendency of the times, and we cannot offer a perfect channel for achievement to God, and hence the mighty commissions of His Word mean little or nothing to us. When He states: “He that believeth on me, the works that I do, shall he do also,” we gape, and wonder, and try to imagine a variety of things that this can mean other than what it says, and then relapse again into our spiritual comatose condition, and sleep on. Little wonder that Jesus said, “When the Son of man cometh, will he find faith on the earth?”
 

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