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FAITH KNOWLEDGE AND CONDUCT
The rule with faith is that it never fails to translate itself into action. This is so because of the associations in which the ideal in the mind is placed and of the unitary nature of life. The impulses being centred in the mental ideal—whatever it be, whether true or false—cannot but be modified and controlled by it. Thus wickedness may be replaced by piety and saintliness, or vice versa. It is all a question of the ideal in the mind.
The stability of the ideal itself is dependent on faith, which may be lost and re-acquired a hundred thousand times in the career of the soul. It is different however with Scientific Faith, acquired as the result of regular study and investigation; for no doubts remain to interfere with its steadiness. Even where certain questions remain to be worked out, as is inevitable for a finite mind, the general grasp over the fundamentals being assured they can only spur one on to further investigation, but are never able to interfere with the settled conviction in the Truth!
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