Check out this illustrated clip from The Search for Me Identity Series. Faith is much more than simply some sort of mental exercise!
Source Images:
Blondin Illustrations - Blondin: His Life and Performance (1862) by George Linnaeus Banks, Routledge, Warne, and Routlege - Book digitized by by Google from the University of Michigan
Blondin carrying Colcord - Courtesy of Niagara Falls (Ontario) Public Library
Niagara Falls Video - Wathen Collection
Maid of the Mist photo - Tomdonohue1 - Public Domain
Blondin Broadside (Old Handbill) - Collection of the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society - used by permission
Blondin Broadside (New Handbill) - Courtesy of Niagara Falls (Ontario) Public Library
Blondin on Tight Rope - Robert N. Dennis Collection - Public Domain
Blondin Cooking on Rope - Courtesy of Niagara Falls (Ontario) Public Library
Blondin Sitting on Rope - E. & H.T. Anthony - Public Domain
Niagara Falls photo - bigdphotographer - morgueFile