Faith is practically nothing so long as it is merely in the head. Head faith can save no man. This is exactly so in daily life. There is no witchery nor mystery in this doctrine at all. Faith can not save you in commerce any more than it can save you in religion.
Faith cannot save the body any more than it can save the soul.
A man believes that if he puts his money into certain funds, he will get back good interest with the most approved security, yet at the end of a year he gets literally nothing. How was that? Because, though he believed it, he did not put any money into the funds.
Can faith save him? A man thoroughly believes that if he takes a certain mixture prescribed for him by good medical authority, he will get better, he will be recovered from his disease; but he gets no better; he gets worse; because, though he believed in the mixture, he did not take it.
Can faith save him? A man wants to go to New York; he believes that ship is going; he is quite sure that that ship will be there in less than a fortnight; yet he himself will not be there! How is that? He had faith.
He had not the shadow of a doubt. Yet there he is, in England! Can faith take him to New York? Can faith save him?— PARKER.
