Word: faith
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...some bore faith, and some bore hope, and some...
...Barker was not a man to make a multitude of friends; but the friends that he did have had every feeling of respect and admiration for him. He showed a rare fidelity in the discharge of his duties; he had the culture of a scholar, the gentleness and the faith of an earnest Christian, an unbounded love for his home; and it is our loss that the example of his pure and serene life is so prematurely taken from...
...wished he had his simple faith...
...Bratt, not content with making Faith the origin of so many worlds, adds that it is also the origin of so many worlds, adds that it is also the origin "of the social, civil, political, and religious world, from a needle to a navy and from a penny whistle to an organ...
...shall investigate this subject more at length when we come to discuss Dana Hill's "Theory of Hypostatization." There is still another assertion in regard to Faith, to wit: that it is "the primary origin of the literary, scientific, philosophical, mechanical, physical, and organic world." Rather a sweeping statement, I fear; that faith is the primary origin of the first five worlds which Bratt mentions is self-evident, - but is Faith, considered as Faith, and not as Hope or Charity, the primary origin of the organic world? I doubt it. To my mind, as well as to the minds...