Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Home Missionary, Vol. 62: May, 1889-April, 1890 What, then, is this trial of faith to-day.z It is not a milk-and - water controversy about the relation of faith and works. It is not a warrant for a selfish religion which concerns itself with saving one's own soul and get ting comfortably into the church. Faith is the living, aggressive, trium phant spirit of God incarnate in every representative of Caleb and Joshua. Faith is the dauntless, assured, glowing face of victory, always turned to new conquests. Faith lives and if it lives it spends its life with inex haustible fullness and freeness upon God's work and God's holy war. Faith always has a Jericho before it; a giant to be met; a Canaan to be conquered. It is faith that is always saying to the Church, Choose the shame of going back or the glory of going forward. It is faith that is always rebuking the minister for settling back into the moribund state of consulting mere human prudence, when God loves to be proven by great emergencies. It is faith that says again and again to every man Give, give. Give life, give time, give money; give, and prove God's promise that you shall never grow the poorer for giving. The men of faith cannot be mistaken. You cannot fail to know them by the way they throw themselves forward upon God's word. 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.