EXTRACT – FAITH

My brethren, let us abide in the place of faith, apparently a more difficult one, yet the place where God is found, and where grace -- the only precious thing in this world -- flourishes, and binds the heart to God by a thousand links of affection and gratitude, as to One who has known us, and who has stooped to meet our need and the desires of our hearts. Faith gives energy; faith gives patience; and it is often thus that the most precious affections are developed -- affections which, if the energy of faith makes us servants on earth, render heaven itself happy, because He who is the object of faith is there, and fills it in the presence of the Father

J.N. Darby Synopsis Vol.1 p.349