The New Life

XXI.
THE LIFE OF FEELING.
* We walk by faith, not by sight."—2 Cor. v. 7.
" Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.'*
—John xi. 29.
" Said I not unto thee, that, if thou believedst, thou shouldest
see the glory of God ?
"— John xi. 40.
connection with your conversion there was no
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greater hindrance in your way than feeling. You
thought, perhaps for years, that you must experience
something, must feel and perceive something in yourselves.
It was to you as if it were too hazardous thus
simply, and without some feeling, to believe in the
word, and be sure that God had received you, and
that your sins were forgiven. But at last you have
had to acknowledge that the way of faith, without
feeling, was the way of the word of God. And it has
been to you the way of salvation. Through faith
alone have you been saved, and your soul has found
rest and peace. ^
In the further life of the Christian there is no
temptation that is more persistent and more dangerous
than this same feeling. The word " feeling " we
do not find in Scripture, but what we call ' feeling *
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the Scripture calls " seeing." And it tells us without
1 John iii. 36 ; Rom. \ii. 28, iv. 5, 16, v. x.
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