feeling, faith, and fact

Three men were walking on a wall,
Feeling, Faith, and Fact,
When Feeling got an awful fall,
And Faith was taken back.
So close was Faith to Feeling,
He stumbled and fell too,
But Fact remained,
And pulled Faith back,
And Faith brought Feeling too.

- From "The Miracle Hand Around the World"
(as cited in "Streams in the Desert, volume two", by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman)