<h2><SPAN name="page73"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>THE FAITH WE NEED</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Too</span> tall our
structures, and too swift our pace;<br/>
Not so we mount, not so we gain the race.<br/>
Too loud the voice of commerce in the land;<br/>
Not so truth speaks, not so we understand.<br/>
Too vast our conquests, and too large our gains;<br/>
Not so comes peace, not so the soul attains.</p>
<p class="poetry">But the need of the world is a faith that will
live anywhere;<br/>
In the still dark depths of the woods, or out in the sun’s
full glare.<br/>
A faith that can hear God’s voice, alike in the quiet
glen,<br/>
Or in the roar of the street, and over the noises of men.</p>
<p class="poetry"><SPAN name="page74"></SPAN><span class="pagenum">p.
74</span>And the need of the world is a creed that is founded on
joy;<br/>
A creed with the turrets of hope and trust, no winds can
destroy;<br/>
A creed where the soul finds rest, whatever this life bestows,<br/>
And dwells undoubting and unafraid, because it knows, it
knows.</p>
<p class="poetry">And the need of the world is love that burns in
the heart like flame;<br/>
A love for the Giver of Life, in sorrow or joy the same;<br/>
A love that blazes a trail to Go through the dark and the
cold,<br/>
Or keeps the pathway that leads to Him clean, through glory and
gold.</p>
<p class="poetry">For the faith that can only thrive or grow in
the solitude,<br/>
And droops and dies in the marts of men, where sights and sounds
are rude;<br/>
That is not a faith at all, but a dream of a mystic’s
heart;<br/>
Our faith should point as the compass points, whatever be the
chart.</p>
<p class="poetry"><SPAN name="page75"></SPAN><span class="pagenum">p.
75</span>Our faith must find its centre of peace in a babel of
noise;<br/>
In the changing ways of the world of men it must keep its
poise;<br/>
And over the sorrowing sounds of earth it must hear God’s
call;<br/>
And the faith that cannot do all this, that is not faith at
all.</p>
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