May 1925
THE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S
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SATAN’S TRIANGLE (Continued from page 199)
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■of fact there are many varieties of belief in each of these fields of thought. This helps to explain why there are so many kinds of Modernism. For clearness in thinking, we shall separate the topics and discuss each one separately. They may be separated in a book or a series of articles, but not in the soul or life of a person. Thinking Through In the discussion of these subjects, I ask only that the reader may have an open mind, open to the truth. ,1 am not afraid of the truth, of reason, or of knowledge. Most of us are lazy intellectually. We are not willing to learn the whole truth, to think the thing through to the, end. We are not willing to make a right angle turn. We want to cut the corner in our thinking. We are Democrats or Republicans by faith. We are special creationists or evo lutionists by faith. We are largely what we are by faith and not by reason (Faith is here used in a broad sense). Faith should not be a “blind act 6f the soul, a leap in the dark.” Real faith and reason ever walk hand in hand. They are inseparable. I cannot prove that my father is my father. However, faith, backed by reason, tells me that I am his son. I cannot prove that God exists. But faith born of reason tells me that He is. What is Faith? In terms of Christianity, faith is belief in God’s Word, the Bible. There are two”realms of truth: the intellectual and the Spiritual. We can build intellectual truths on intellectual or natural axioms only. We can build spiritual truths on spiritual or supernatural axioms only. Reason cannot enter the field of faith other than to consider evi dence for and against. Special Creation, the Virgin Birth, and the Resurrection are, th6n, in the realm of the super natural. Faith must decide for or against. However, even here faith is buoyed up by every evidence that sacred and profane history give. Peter had faith that Christ .^vas his Lord. Here again was faith augmented by reason.,. Peter had seen Jesus per form miracles and so he believed. “Whom say ye that I am?” “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.” The Son of God still asks this age-old question. May we answer with eyes open to the truth, and with a faith illum inated with the wisdom that the Holy Spirit alone can give. To speak with any authority concerning faith, we must have faith. To think deeply about Christianity, we must first have had a Christian experience. (Continued in June issue)
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m m A BANKER WHO BANKS ON THE R TB T/ e : (Continued from page 202)
“You may ask what application to the members of the Buffalo Association of Credit Men and the Buffalo Chapter of the American Institute of Banking has such a sermon as I am preaching? Do not forget that perhaps the most important factor in credit is honesty and integrity of the debtor, and his intent to pay his debts, even if they take the last cent he has. On this subject, the Bible is the greatest text book and the Golden Rule one of its greatest texts.”
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