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faith!” True. But Jesus did not help him have any such faith. On another occasion he said to Peter, “I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not.” This time He let it fail.
A man said that he was going to live alone by faith and prayer, so would not work. His clothes became seedy, his home was mortgaged, he began to sink financially and socially, and but for the “helping hand” of a friend, would have “gone under.” You see, this man was presumptuous in thinking that God would feed him, when God has said of everybody else, “If a man will not work, neither shall he eat.” Ravens fed Elijah when there was no other way of his getting food. And if you are doing God’s service, and come to want, He will help you through. But the only ravens that come to a man who will not try to earn a living are such ravens as come to men dying in the desert, to pick their bones.
A young man of my acquaintance was very fond of the company of a set of wild