Dissolving Doubts

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106 IMPROVEMENT ERA.

"Yes," said the old man; as he passed on with his four-footed friend. Detroit Free Press.

Dissolving: Doubts.

For all persons troubled with doubts and intellectual difficul- ties we have here the true method of their dissolution. Every faculty has itsown work. You cannot make one sense do the work of the other sense. The tongue can taste the cluster of grapes, but the tongue cannot help you hear the song. The eye sees mountain and cloud, but it will not feel — that is the work of the fingers. Reason can collect arguments, and memory can recall the past; and the religious faculty has its own work in giving direct access to God. There is, indeed, a fragmentary way of knowing God that comes through the lower faculties, as children may know their parents by the lower senses. The babe is upon its mother's bosom. The little creature thinks it knows its mother. It knows that the mother satisfies hunger, that the mother gives

warmth through raiment, that the mother can soothe and rest its tired body. Should you ask this little child, grown to ten years of age, if she knows her mother, she would make immediate response that she knows her through and through. Yet not until that child has come to womanhood and has had children of her own has she any deep heart recognition of what she owes that parent. Years from now, when her own children are ten years of age, this mature daughter will return to the home of her childhood, and the long, tender embrace will tell this gray-haired mother that at last her daughter knows how much she owes to the mother who carried her weakness and ignorance and sickness, and bore her sorrows. It is only by love that we understand God's infinite love. Oh, all ye doubting ones, follow the light you have You know that the !

moral law is right. Obey that to the last jot and title. You know that Jesus Christ is earth's most pure and radiant spirit. Follow his example. Daily read his words. Help the weak as he helped them. Bear burdens as he bore them. Love the poor as he loved them. Recover the publican and prodigal as he sought for them. In the cool of evening find your way into some secret place, and pray as he prayed, and, with your Master's help, you will see that