Friday, October 18, 1963
THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Page Five
MIRROR
MEDITATION
By EMMITT L. BRINSON
Last week In this column we
discussed “Faith”, and giving
of substance to faith by acting
upon our beliefs. “Faith with
out substance could be wishful
thinking.”
Somewhere In this web of
thought, the sub-conscious
seems to arouse a sense of
“doubt.” Pursuit of doubt leads
us to rationalizing, to find rea
son and logic; a sense of bal
ance. This, then Is another step
to establishing fact and truth.
The result of giving substance
to faith.
Reason Is not Incompatible
to Christianity, as most of the
New Testmant is based upon
it. Christ said: “Come now let
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us reason together.” He taught
us to worship with our minds,
our bodies and other faculties!
Peter urged us to “Stir up our
minds.”
“Reason,” as defined by
Webster is; “That which Is
thought or which is alleged In
words as ground or cause of
opinion, conclusion or deter
mination; the cause principle.”
Helen Keller stated; “Most
people measure their happiness
in terms of physical pleasures
and material possession. If hap
piness Is to be so measured,
I, who can not hear or see,
have every REASON to sit in a
corner with folded hands
and weep.”
But we know that Helen Keller
by adding substance to her
faith, accomplished what ap
pears to have been a miracle;
to become an Intellectual with
out the basic principles of com
munication. Ah, yes, it was
phenominal.
I believe Reason is the high
est faculty of the human mind,
by which man is distinguished
from brutes, and which enables
him to contemplate things spir
itual as well as material;
to weigh all that can be said
or thought for and against them,
and hence to draw conclusions
and to act accordingly; an intu
ition or faculty of the mind by
which it distinguishes truth
from falsehood, and good
from evil (like conscience)
which enables the possessor
to deduce inferences from
facts—or from propositions.
Robert E. D. Clark wrote
in his bo'ik; (Christian belief
and Science:) “To think con
secutively, coherently, or logi
cally. So by reasoning we mean
at least this, that we arrange
our thoughts, not at random,
but In order; If possible with
due regard to the rules of
logic, each thought suggesting
the one that follows. Some might
add that the “objective fact”
should usually be the basis of
our train of reasoning and that
the last thought in the train
should be by way of a con
clusion.”
Reason, however, is by no
means an infallible guide to
knowledge and truth, as the
whole story of science relates
that again and again the path of
reason led to wrong con
clusions—such conclusions far
out numbering correct ones.
So Rationalizing and reason
ing thereby will remain a pur
suit of a doubting mind--or
part of a process of giving sub
stance to faith—a faith in
action—forever seeking the
road to truth.
And the road to truth never
ends. It is endless. Along its
route arising from faith will
produce many layers of knowl
edge. But all knowledge begins
with faith of the Individual and
the masses, with each genera
tion; and It ends in the same
manner.
For at the end of each pur
suit there remains yet evidence
required of things not seen.
Truth and knowledge is but an
embryo--unborn. Never to be
completely seen or contained.
Only the Creator has the key.
And so—Faith Is the begin
ning—Faith In the ending—and
it Inevitably remains that Faith
without works (substance) lies
dormant. It Is lost.
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