By: Rev. E.B. McGill
Printed in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian
May 30, 1928 (97 years ago)
Dr. Torrey says, “I remember one time when Mr. Moody came to New Haven. I was in the seminary in my last year. In a sermon that evening, Mr. Moody said, ‘That is so. No man ever accomplished anything for God who had not a mighty faith.’ Then I said, ‘I am going to have faith.’ And I tried to pump up faith. Did you ever try it? Did you ever try to pump water out of a pump that had no water in it? The more you pump, the more the old pump squeaks, and that is all there is in it…And I said, ‘I am making no headway at all.’ One day, I ran across Romans 10:17, ‘Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.’ I stopped trying to pump up faith and went to feeding on the words of God, and, thank God, I got some faith. I haven’t as much as I ought to have, but I have a million times as much as I had to start with. If you haven’t faith, feed on the Word of God. Some people say, ‘I wish I had faith; I have no faith at all.’ What are you doing to get it? Reading all the skeptical books that come out, reading all the trashy novels that appear, and not spending ten minutes a day on God’s Word, and then wondering why you have no faith. The Bible is faith full. If you want faith, you must read the Bible. Study it. Spend time on it.”