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THE NEW BERN MIRROR. NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, October 1],
1963
I
MIRROR
MEDITATION
By EAAMITT L. BRINSON
Faith; This word has been de
fined by many over the ages,
and has been used In every
possible fashion by the masses,
and It works In many ways for
the Individual.
Webster defines It as;
“belief, trust, confide In. The
assent of the mind to truth of
what Is declared by another,
resting on veracity without
other evidence. On firm and
earnest belief, on probable evi
dence.”
Confronted by the skeptic he
questions that It would never
move mountains. Analyzed;
hardly any one today would
believe one could wave his hand
at the mountain and It would
disappear.
I would rather believe that If
It could be done, God could do
It, but let us review what Paul
said about faith. Hebrews 11:1
“Now faith Is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence
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of things not seen.’
Having faith Is to “believe”,
and to believe does not mean
the evidence is yet there. Be
lief Is then a sincere thought,
not evidenced by fact.
Once cornered by a skeptic,
and In listening to his reason
ing, a different channel of
thought occurred to me In order
to combat his viewpoint. I am
sure it Is not new, but among
certain associates I’m not so
sure It would meet with ap
proval. But I dare to be a non
conformist.
First of all, thought Is crea
tive and belief being thought,
energy and action must follow.
Substance Is not thought. It Is
material. Faith then gives the
substance to things hoped for.
It initiates creative action or
provides the means and tools
to deliver the facts.
Faith Is the forerunner of
fact. Unless Paul had faith In
what he visualized, he would
never have accomplished what
he did. So It Is—with every
one’s life.
Faith, said the skeptic; “Is
wishful thinking.” Just to wish
without affirmative action Is
as the skeptic states. But, when
one wishes—and acts on belief,
the action Is powerful. It creates
within the Individual many chan
nels of ways and means In ac
complishment toward whatever
he might have faith in.
“If you had the faith of grain
of mustard seed,” Now we know
a mustard seed does not have
faith. But, the substance con
taining the endowed Creative
Power which causes It to grow
into a hugh plant explains that
it takes hold of the helpful
elements and environments and
transforms Itself Into a mus
tard plant.
Man, too, with his faith can
likewise c^l on his creative
endowments to do anything. He
believes he can build a house.
He gives substance to his faith
and builds the house as he vis
ualized. So It Is with every
thing man has accomplished.
The poet, the artist, the musi
cian, the engineer, the scientist,
or in every vocation that could
be thought of, one sees his ideas
as a finished product. First the
dream, the thought, the wish,
the faith, and then the action
(substance) and the finished
product will take place.
Anything the mind might ima
gine, given substance. It will
conceive, and happen. But not
at the wave of a magic wand
by man. God has given him the
ability to think, and creative
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thought attaches the power of
God.
So man with faith can move
the mountain, but It requires
substance. Faith, time and ac
tion will see It through. Faith
Is the mother of fact. Creative
Faith, given substance produces
evldence-or fact.
Grasping this’ truth, one
realizes that without faith man
long ago would have disappeared
from the face of the earth, or
would have remained In caves.
In itself Faith will never be
bound by knowledge, and It was
man’s Faith that has brought us
to this present day, with the
countless thousands of wonders
about us, with knowledge
and facts as we understand
them, and It will be Faith that
shall carry mankind Into the
future, with unbelievable won
ders not yet dreamed of.
How very true: “Now faith
Is the substance of things hoped
for, the evidence of things not
seen.”
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TALK
If It takes an apple a day to
keep the doctor away, it’s a
wonder more New Bern
teachers don’t end upon the sick
list.
Gone Is the era when these
fruit-loving public servants
could expect one or more
delicious wlnesaps each and
every morning, come rain or
come shine. Them kind of pupils
ain’t no more.
Back in the old days, kids
weren’t satisfied with bring
ing apples regularly. They used
to have “fruit showers” and on
tliose occasions they loaded the
teacher up with a big basket
that included not only apples
but oranges, bananas, grapes,
and perhaps a tangerine or two!
You would think a youngster
who can’t add two and two,
and Is apt to fall his grade,
would bring an apple to class
now and then—just In self de-
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