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FAITH.
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without works is dead." If you say that you love God, and tell lies, and break the Sabbath, and disobey your parents, and quarrel, it is not true; you do not love God or else you would try to obey Him. Your faith, therefore, is dead; it is not real, living faith, but it is only belief. That is the kind of faith the devils have. They believe, that is, know these things to be so, and they tremble at what they know, but they have no faith.

There is another kind of faith besides a dead faith, much better as it is a true faith, though an ignorant one. I will illustrate it by the following story: