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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 79, 13 December 1884, Page 3

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(advertisement.) .■ (Contiiiued.)l Now, a continuance of implicit confidrnce in the veracity of what the Creator had said would hare led Eve to have turned a deaf ear to the tempter, and fled frrxST his presence ; ' hat, alas ! 'she harkened, yielded, and fell; and was followed by her husband in her guilty conduct. The surrender of their faith in the truthfulness of what God had said waß,their $iil ; and guilty dread fastened itself upon their polluted consciences. Briefly pnt,*they believed the Devil's lie in preference to God's truth; and hy this jman* forfeited the eujoyment of God's presence and favour. Unbelief is the condition into which the whole race has been plunged, and if is only jby being lifted out Of this into the fuirpossession and exercise of saying faith in Him .who was promised^ injniercy directly, after, the fall, and who in due time was manifested to Urn *; worjd, and suffored, . died, and , rose agajnv that- mau caa be made hc-lj, kappy.

and meet for heaven. It is, so to speak a retracing of our steps, from this condi tion of unbelief in which we are found ir our degenerate state, to confidence and love towards God. 2. The wisdom oi i appointing faith as the condition ol j salvation is obvious when it is remenn I bered that faith is antecedent to all seri- . ous action among men ; and is that which i gives nerve and resolution in carrying out every kind of work and enterprise ; I and that, too, very frequently, in the face ■ ; of the darkest and unkindest prophecies. When a man has lost faith in an under- ! takingin which he is engaged, he hesitates and moves with sluggish steps. But only let him hold 011 to the belief that he is 1 right and all will turn out for the best, ■ then he goes on with quickened speed and I unrelaxed energy- Thus, faith is the I very soul of human action. Such being the case, the wisdom of God in claiming the heart's truest, liveliest, and fullest confidence as the condition of salvation, is at once apparent. In surrendering our heart's confidence to Jesus, we surrender j ourselves to him, to spend our future I days and powers according to his will and for His glory. And he asks for 1 nothing less than this in return for his sufferings for our sakes, and unless we lay hold of Him by faith, and give ourselves to work out His will, we can nerer bo saved. To be continued.