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189 their trust in him. Yes, my child, to him I commit you while you live, and in his care I can cheerfully leave you when you die." FAITH. Here, you see, faith requires us to know something of God before we can trust him. Now I want to speak more particularly about what the apostle James says, "Faith without works is dead." I have told you that belief and faith are not the same. You may believe and yet have no faith, but you cannot have faith without belief; faith then is something more than belief. Believing in God, which we call faith, is not only thinking all that he says is true, Digitized by Google