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Excerpt from Faith and Its Effects, or Fragments From My Portfolio What IS faith? This is a question, which by the pious of all ages has been regarded as pre eminently important. And surely the magnitude of the inquiry cannot be estimated beyond what its merit demands. What question can be more momentous to one who would secure the divine approifal, since without faith it is impossible to please God Yet the subject of faith has been so ably discussed by theologians of deep piety, that the author of this'work has no intention of enter ing upon this ground as the revealer of any new theory. She may not speak of azhigher anticipa tion than that of bringing forth truths as old as the Bible, with the humble hope that the Holy Spirit may cause them to be presented to the reader with vitality and freshness. And why write a book, if nothing new to com municate? We answer, with the h0pe that some sincere inquirer, who may have been long looking for some new revelation, or that some great thing be wrought, may cease the vain endeavor, and in lowliness of mind ask for the old paths. Few, perhaps, have been more perplexed in re lation to faith than the writer was in early life. She has since discovered that the religion of the Bible does not require great powers of mind to reach it, but deep humility of spirit to come down to its simplicity. That the Bible is the word of God, is a truth with which from infancy she had been fami liar, yet from a want of a. Proper realization of this fact her difficulties mainly arose. For years past she has in experimental verity apprehended the divinity of the word, and consequently her diffi culties about faith have all vanished.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.