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us out of darkness into His marvelous light!"The effect of these new ambitions, hopes, aims, uponhis physical health is often marvelous. It serves as aspiritual nerve-tonic. It stimulates the mortal to serviceDivine. The new mind does not suggest carelessness ofthe mortal body--nor yet carefulness, except to the extentthat necessary care may obtain the larger results to God'sglory from the consumption of the human energies.Hence, as St. Paul says, "Godliness is profitable unto allthings, having the promise of the life that now is as wellas of that which is to come."--I Tim. 4:8.====================R5114 : page 320THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAITH THROUGH FIERY TRIALS"That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than ofgold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be foundunto praise and honor and glory at theappearing of Jesus Christ."--1 Pet. 1:7.FAITH MAY BE said to have in it the two elementsof intellectual assurance and heart-reliance.Both the head and the heart--theintellect and the affections--are necessaryto the faith without which it is impossibleto please God. With some, faith is all emotion;with others, it is all intellectuality.But neither of these elements alone canwithstand the fiery tests to which faith issubjected. Both must be present and remain,if our faith be that which will endure to the end andbe found unto praise, honor and glory at the appearing ofour Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.The trial of our faith to which our Lord and theApostles refer is a trial, not only of our intellectual knowledgeof Divine Truth, but also of our heart-reliance uponGod. In both respects, the true child of God will findhimself severely tried. Let him see to it that he has a"Thus saith the Lord" for every item of his belief. Lethim study the doctrine and get a clear understanding ofevery element of the Truth. Let him become rooted,grounded, settled and established in the doctrines of God,and give earnest heed lest at any time he let them slip.--Heb. 2:1.When he has his faith well grounded in the fundamentalprinciples of Divine Truth, let every consecrated childof God see to it that he also continue to cultivate heart-reliancein the "great and precious promises." St. Petertells us that a faith which has stood the tests of fiery ordealand has come off victorious is very precious in thesight of the Heavenly Father. Whenever we passthrough a fiery trial and still retain, not only our faith inthe doctrines, but also our confidence in God, our reliance