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June 2, 1909. Sundj HERO June 13, 190* GOLDEN TEXT.?"Faith the evidence of th SHORTE Q. 59. Which day of the i weekly Sabbath? A. From the beginning < t Christ, God appointed the ! weekly Sabbath, and the ti continue to the end of the bath. DAILY H M.?Heb. 11:1-12. W.?Heb. 11:32-40. F.?Dan. 0:1-10. S?1 TODIC Faith, Its Nature and Triurri What faith is, vs. 1-3. What faith has done, vt LESSOI The lesson is from the ui the author was is unknown prominent in the e&rjg CI authorship Dy various Chris Salvation by faith was ] by circumcision and the ] heresy. What is faith? Is a to give an Incompetent ansv elude the words "vitar* a there must also.be included raim is me substance substance to the things hop Our hopes are visionary ai and real as we have dead day dreams and building a and substantial as the thin "Faith is the evidence ol ture things may be dreams What is the proof? Circu: yet many rely on it with { things, and things hoped 1 miooIKU t ""ooiuie wiieu we are seen the evidence. Unless faith ment of true faith. . Unless as firmly and with the same substantial things around i sential qualities of the Chri "For therein the elder3 saints of former times g source. 1 hrough faith we undei by the word of God." Throt the ancients, got most of all men of mo3t things, on spiritual things. We understand" many t knowledge with us that Go His power. We know con: and visible universe. But know them by faith; and v spiritual and unseen unive THE PRESBYTERIA ay School ES OF FAITH. >. Heb. 11:1-3, 17-29 . is the substance of things hoped for, ings not seen."?Heb. 11:1. iR CATECHISM. 3even hath God appointed to be the )f the world to the resurrection of seventh day of the week to be the rst day of the week ever since, to world, which is the Christian SabOME READINGS. T.?Heb. 11:13-31. Th?Neh. 2:11-20. S.?Heb. 12:1-13. dom. 8:31-39. AL OUTLINE, iphs? I. 17-29. N COMMENTS. tisigned letter to the Hebrews. Who . Paul, Silas, llarnabas and others lurch have been credited with its itian writers. preached as the Gospel. Salvation Mosaic ritual was the threatening question men have ever been prone rer. James said the answer must in ,nd "operative.*' This writer Bays the word "confidence." of things hoped for." "The giving ied for" is perhaps a better reading, id illusory, or they are sugstantial or living faith. Are we dreaming ir castles, or are our hopes as real gs we are at present dealing with? ! things not seen." Unseen and fuof realities. Facts admit of proof, mstantial evidence is not the best, ;reater certainty concerning unseen for. Hearsay testimony is not ading incontrovertible proof. Faith is is proof, it lacks an important elewe do believe in these unseen things assurance as we do in the seen and is, we are lacking in one of the esstian faith. had witness borne to them." The ot their information through mis -stand that the worlds were framed lgh this same source we, as well as our information. Faith is proof to ly the Christian accepts It also tor hings "by faith." It is a matter of d created all things by the word of iparatively little about the material we do know some things, and we re also know some things about the rse in the same way. Hlot out of iN OF THE SOUTH. knowledge the verities that very little is left. Doubt ant cision are elements or weakm sifting and separating beiwee the substances and realties c perstitlous beliefs; but unles things assured of, the man is roes are all men of faith, at that the things hoped for and mountains to them. Call the roll and see if it when he was tried, ottered up "In Isaac shall thy seed be < lieved It In the same fashion his senses as he touched and died. He knew that Isaac wo should descend the promised to plunge the sacrificial knife on the altar. He was not 1 faith did not stagger. He k come down together from tha ise was a certainty. Faith money, a title deed as propel was satisfied. He doubtless proceed in the matter of full he seems to have thought tha sacrifice for Isaac. But he fe back to life, even after his hi less that is what he thought v picion of God and no thoughl then to end. "Whence also he received parable"?not "so to speak,' ham understood that this wai It had a great purpose, and parable. We know the interi be that on that occasion "Abri Isaac blessed his sons, divh the same feeling of assurance will and bequeths land to his things, but to him they were r the future. Jacob did the san burial in a distant time with who knows he owns a certai uot oniy noped his people wou was based on a knowledge of 1 by faith. Moses' parents had faith a the King's commandment." II fear and distress. Not so; tl the future based on faith. It any mere solid foundation tt They perhaps believed the c he was so beautiful. The po that was the substance of thii fearlessly. "Moses, when he was come nor a visionary in refusing ai lot deliberately with the Heh of the future, by faith, to det to him. Step by step his care confidence. He saw the insi1 from the beginning. These all had exceptional o will, we think. We have bett His will. True, He does not make us special promises anc that we have greater reason plans and purposes of God f< us. Let us have the true fait 13 rest on the witness of faith and 1 uncertainty, wavering and indees3. Doubt is no doubt useful for n the illusions'and delusions, and if faith, between rational and sus the sifting leaves a residue of of no use in tne world. The heid their faith is 01 such type as unseen are as real as the granite be not so. "By faith Abraham. Isaac." It had been satd to him, called." He believed It. He beas he believed the evidences of tasted an saw the things he hanuld beget children through whom inheritance. Yet he was ready ; in his heart and burn his body troubled about the matter. His new that he and the boy would t mountain, xo him God's promreceives a promissory note as rty. Abraham held the title and wondered just how God would illing His promise. At one time ,t God would provide a substitute it sure that God could call l3aac oay Had been burnt. And doubtrould happen. But ne had no sust that Isaac's eartnly career was him in a figure." That is, "in a ' "figuratively speaaing." Abras no whimsical command of God. he learned that ne was acting a iretation of that parable. It may aham saw my day, and was glad, ling to them an inheritance, with i that any man has who makes a heirs. He ws giving away future eal things, not doubtful wishes for le thing. Joseph arranged for his the same confidence a man does n lot in a certain cemetery. He Id some day leave Egypt, his hope the future, which knowledge came nd were not therefore "afraid of t is usual to picture them in great ley were acting on knowledge of ; does not appear their faith had lan that their baby ws beautiful, hild would be preserved because ipt is, they believed with a faith IKS no Deri for and ~ ?1 _ v. vMVAViVKO auicu to years" acted neither as a fool 1 Egyptian career and casting his rew race. He understood enough ermine which course ofTered most er showed that he had undoubting yible. He knew, in part, the end pporiumties to know God and His er opportunities to know God and speak to us as individuals and so 1 set us special tasks. But for ail to know than they had the great >r us and what He requires from h! W. D. Hedleston.