Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1846-12-03
Be Patient.


A little 10y planted his willow twig in the
earth, to raise a tree, and pulled it up every NOR
ming TO see if it had taken root-but the poor
little twig, with every desire in the world to
Sprout, could not by any means; for as soon as
1t thrust humorous young bud out, the impatient
boy dragged it from its workshop and destroyed
It, Now, if half the twig, well applied, could
have taught the boy to wait patiently for the
growing of the other half whole tree would
have been the result, much sooner to say the
least.
The impatient man, like the boy, can never
1fford to wait the growing of the harvest, and
wfae' er seed be sowu, ii is half tramped into
the dust by his intense eagerness, aud he is
wasted with new refuness at the meagle income
Why, man and boy, it takes corn-stak three
months to mature-a tree from twenty to a
hundred lears-and do you think a truth, whose
roots are to strike deep in,o all life, and whose
branches are to be shelter for many thousands
will grow up in a day? A mushr, I'm he may,
and perish the next, to f1ten its succeSsor-but
the live seed of an eternal Truth must have an
age to start n-ages to flourish bent and shiv-
erlng saplin-and whole millennium to bear its
bright flowers andever rpening fruits. We are not
sent here to pick the apples we plant, but to plant
more FIR the future, and nurse the good trees
lhh our fthers planted We may catch wind
fIll now and then, from our gre lt-grand fathers
pruning indeed, have caught by far too many
md too bitter ones from the tree father Adam
ubn,,k p ,ruIi.a- htt,, =,
ly living on the Plsl-we must put seed into
the earth, to fill the coming aye with perennial
goodness. 1t is very uuwse to fret and hurry.
Put in the seed of truth and Wmt-lhnt is leave
lh To take root in quiet, while You SOW another
field. Here, and there, aud every where, lei fill
like many, to harrow ever the soil with the claws
of your blind zeal, till the very seeds cry out,
1--WE are sprouing" no hurry-they
are not lost, though covered from cur sight
We may well doubt the depth Of quick growth,
: and look for as speedy decay.
Ten years ago, the hopeful in our antislavery
cause, said, " i'll a year or two look to see
slavery abolished" and sped on hoty to the
encounter But they found that the great tree
of Liberty could not be reared in twelve
/ month, with wide arms spreading
"To make the nations silent in their shade"
And such as learned not wisdom, by the long
delay, went weary, and forgot to labor for the
D poor bondman. If we look to our work more
and less to our hoped reward, fewer heart-sck.
+ nesses and more lasting benefits will be the re-
= suit
1t is long way from here to Perfection, and
e perhaps hard way; aud we are not so nimble
o to Jump the great slough Of sin and misery as
It our greener f.ncieS taught us. Some If score
t, and eight millions Of all imaginable hearts have
n yet to be washed white (decenlly Whitley and hlr
n mnnized, before the angels of Liberty, and Tenn
perance, and Love, and Purity and all good
!. will to man eau move in" and abide there
" Then when this is done, there is complement
If of eight hundred millions, more or less, left It
o be purified, lttle and much heinre the wurIC
If can be quite a Paradise. Let this teach II,
9 not to haste, nor he IdIe-nelther to rust moi
d wear OUTPUT with eqnabe endeMor push for
|, ward TO do our part in the worlds regeneration
d One heart each man can practice on IN private
" dhd SEE now louSh d tII'"S IL u, "". vi sui
is fragments, to create man, Fry, each on hi:
e own self, aud so you will learn the trick of i'm
is proTement, and the lesson of long patience which
s may fit you and all of us to become Relormers
st Every craft and calling should as far as con
a venient, use their own handiwolk, and be
In walking recommendation of their abors. I'm
a dlrtakerS may be spared the experiment, ant
" Doctors, perhaps-but the men who will maxi
I'd others reer better, wiser, and more loving, cal
1T do no safel thing than to become the living ex
" empIars of their teachings Then they will flint
that long aud patient labor, is the only father O
o. worthy thing, either in soul or clay, in tn
a. advancing thought or the high progress of Art
D. It may be of no service to most men to dive
re long on the greatness Of the work y he done
VI. Just let them catch one glimpse, enough t
'' smother rnshness or Impotence, and to fix thel
50 course, aud then set the eye where the hand is
q and press firmly on over present obstacles B