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An Address

mortal hindrance and doubt, as he slowly rises
in his desire for better and better things, so that
our true Faith will neither stickle for formularies,
nor renounce mysteries. The idea of God grows
with our spiritual growth, and Faith is exactly as
that oration to the Hebrews styles it, the substance
or reality of things hoped for, which are ever our
newest desire, not our past dream—and the
Desire itself is our only assurance and evidence of
those unseen things.