akes not of
the Bread sent down from heaven.

Some ask: "How am I to get my heart warmed?" It is by believing. You
do not get power to love and serve God until you believe.

The apostle John says "If we receive the witness of men, the witness
of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which He hath
testified of His Son. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the
witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made Him a liar;
because he believeth not the record that God gave of His Son. And
this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this
life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath
not the Son of God hath not life" (1 John v. 9).

Human affairs would come to a standstill if we did not take the
testimony of men. How should we get on in the ordinary intercourse of
life, and how would commerce get on, if we disregarded men's
testimony? Things social and commercial would come to a dead-lock
within forty-eight hours! This is the drift of the apostle's argument
here. "If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is
greater." God has borne witness to Jesus Christ. And if man can
believe his fellow men who are frequently telling untruths and whom
we are constantly finding unfaithful, why should we not take God at
His word and believe His testimony?

Faith is a belief in testimony. It is not a leap in the dark, as some
tell us. That would be no faith at all. God does not ask any man to
believe without giving him something to believe. You might as well
ask a man to see without eyes; to hear without ears; and to walk
without feet--as to bid him believe without giving him something to
believe.

When I started for California I procured a guide-book. This told me,
that after leaving the State of Illinois, I should cross the
Mississippi, and then the Missouri; get into Nebraska; then over the
Rocky Mountains to the Mormon settlement at Salt Lake City, and by
the way of the Sierra Nevada into San Francisco. I found the guide
book all right as I went along; and I should have been a miserable
sceptic if, having proved it to be correct three-fourths of the way,
I had said that I would not believe it for the remainder of the
journey.

Suppose a man, in directing me to the Post Office, gives me ten
landmarks; and that, in my progress there, I find nine of them to be
as he told me; I should have good reason to believe that I was coming
to the Post Office.

And if, by