A WORD A DAY.

Southland Times, Issue 21073, 3 May 1930, Page 8

A WORD A DAY.

TRUST. Trust is confidence, faith, belief in; it is a dependence on the veracity and justice of another. In commercial centres it means credit, reliance on future payment. Our English word appears to go back to the Anglo-Saxon truw-ian, “to trust,” and is akin to the Icelandic traust ami the German trost. The Hebrew verb which we translate “to trust” is in every Semitic tongue and seems to convey the fundamental idea of stability, steadfastness, reliability. In the Bible, however, it occurs almost exclusively as applied to the religious faith that reposes in the Almighty. Religious trust is a reverential and loving faith, which rests on the firm basis of ' strong and unshaken conviction of the might and grace and love of God, and of the trustworthiness of all His words and of the expectation of the fulfilment of His promises. It is from its object that any trust derives its value, hence the worthier the object the greater the growth in mental and spiritual power of the one who is confiding. The vowel in trust is short, as tn up. ‘They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion.”