required my belief that the God and Father of all men left
the whole non-Christian world without any light from Himself. But
surely there is a vast difference between the position of these books
and that of the Bible. All that is good in the Koran existed already
in Christianity and Judaism, and is mainly derived from them. The
Sacred Books of India, with their pearls of spiritual truth gleaming
here and there amongst a mass of rubbish, can surely not be compared
with the Bible in reference to the above argument.

IV.

WHAT IS FAITH?

By The Rev. H. M. Little, L.S.T., Rector of the Church of the Advent,
Montreal.

A careful reader of the Gospels must be struck with the insistence
which Jesus Christ places upon faith. "Verily I say unto you I have
not found so great faith, no, not in Israel." "Why are ye fearful, O
ye of little faith?" "Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of
the palsy, son be of good cheer." "According to your faith be it done
unto you." "He did not many mighty works there because of their
unbelief." "O woman, great is thy faith, be it unto thee even as thou
wilt." "Dost thou believe on the Son of God?" "Ye believe in God,
believe also in me."

What then is this faith which Jesus Christ asks of people? Is it
nothing more than a "looking upward" by one in need to one able to
supply the need? Jesus was never satisfied with this attitude.

THE TRUE NATURE OF FAITH.

In the case of the twelve Apostles we see what the nature of true faith
is. Jesus Christ chose them that they might be with Him in order that
they might learn His "secret"--the knowledge of His Personality. He
wished for such confidence in Him that they would commit themselves
wholly to His keeping. For the lack of this faith He rebuked them in
the storm on the lake. Their faith failed them again at the
Crucifixion; and it was the first task of the Master after the
Resurrection to build again this confidence which was shattered by the
tragedy of His death. He was successful. The early chapters of the
Acts record the degree of calm confidence with which these same men
committed their lives to His keeping (though absent from their sight)
as to One possessing all authority in heaven and on earth. Such is the
true nature of Faith.

THE EVERLASTING WHISPER.

Perhaps it will be better to clear away a misconception existing in
some minds arising from a confusion of thought between the exercise of
per