you have not obtained by reason of your faith? Your food, your raiment, your lodgings, are they not all by reason of your faith? Reflect, and ask yourselves if these things are not so. Turn your thoughts on your own minds, and see if faith is not the moving cause of all action in yourselves; and, if the moving cause in you, is it not in all other intelligent beings? 12. And as faith is the moving cause of all action in temporal concerns, so it is in spiritual; for the Savior has said, and that truly, that he that _believeth_ and is baptized, shall be saved. Mark 16:16. 13. As we receive by faith, all temporal blessings that we do receive, so we, in like manner, receive by faith all spiritual blessings, that we do receive. But faith is not only the principle of action, but of power also, in all intelligent beings whether in heaven or on earth. Thus says the author of the epistle to the Hebrews, 11:3: 14. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God: so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. 15. By this we understand that the principle of power, which existed in the bosom of God, by which the worlds were framed, was faith; and that it is by reason of this principle of power existing in the Deity, that all created things exist--so that all things in heaven, on earth, or under the earth, exist by reason of faith as it existed in HIM. 16. Had it not been for the principle of faith the worlds would never have been framed, neither would man have been formed of the dust--It is the principle by which Jehovah works, and through which he exercises power over all temporal as well as eternal things. Take this principle or attribute, (for it is an attribute) from the Deity and he would cease to exist. 17. Who cannot see, that if God framed the worlds by faith, that it is by faith that he exercises power over them, and that faith is the principle of power? And if the principle of power, it must be so in man as well as in the Deity? This is the testimony of all the sacred writers, and the lesson which they have been endeavouring to teach to man. 18. The Saviour says Matthew 17:19,20, in explaining the reason why the disciples could not cast out the devil, that it was because of their unbelief: For verily I say unto you, said he, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard--seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to you yonder place! and it shall remove: and nothing shall be impossible unto you.