to another. Those who had a lot of faith in the New Deal of yesterday today have their faith in something else. Those who believed for instance, that when President Roosevelt died the country would fall to pieces have switched their faith to another man. Faith is a belief. A confidence in feeling. Almost a knowing. A knowing beyond reason, at times.

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for," said Paul. Substance is something tangible. Something we can take hold of. But it is not something like a desk. What is it? It is a feeling, an inner knowing. A real surety of something we are to see come to pass.

That feeling of faith is our evidence of things not seen. Evidence, as we all know, is a pretty corroborative word. It is definite tangible proof, and as Paul says, faith is the substance of this. Faith will bring it to pass. The thing we want to have happen, dream of, if we have enough faith, will come true.

The text ends "for by it the elders have had a good report." Who are the elders? Those are the people, the teachers, the scholars, who have known these truths, who have brought them to pass. And who discovered that the only way to bring any change into your life is to be able to have a faith in something, a faith with which you hang on like grim death. That is faith, and that is the faith that moves mountains.

You know it is perfectly true that we are all of different natures. Some have very deep, intense natures; others shallow natures. And the shallow person will waver. But again, according to the amount of wavering you do, so will be your demonstration. (You know the simile we so often use - we can use it on faith).
How much faith can you have? How much water is there in the ocean? You cannot exhaust the ocean - but you can only take away as much water as your receptacle will hold.

Faith grows, you know. And there are ways you can hasten its growth. There isn't a person who cannot afford