The Value of Steadfast Faith
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Colossians 2:5
For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, rejoicing and beholding your order…
Faith is the standard-bearer in every spiritual conflict; and if the standard-bearer fall, then it is an evil day. If faith fails, everything fails: courage fails, patience fails, hope fails, love fails, joy fails. Faith is the root-grace; and if this be not in order, then the leafage of the soul, which shows itself in the form of other graces, will soon begin to wither.
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