Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-10-01
LEARN 10 Labor and TO Wait"

Learn 10 Labor and TO Wait"
There are some who have engaged in the
anti-slavery reform under the Influence of ii
temporary excitement, without having any
definite idea Of the labor they would be ex-
ppcted TO perform, or the encouragement that
awaited them. Such have done well for a
time, have been jealous and enthusiastic
while the excitement lasted, but soon relaps-
ed into their former Indifference and apathy.
These are not the kind of material of which
Reformers are made. They have no %inclina-
ton TO earn the two great lessons which ev-
cry true man must learn; TO hdOr with zeal,
with perseverance,, with steadfastness and
10 wad in faith, in hope, in patience.
No reform ever has been or ever can be &C.
complished without labor; and the labor
must be commensurate with the extent and
power of the evil TO be eradicated. Slavery
cannot be overthrown by holiday efforts. A
system which has struck its roots so deep in
10 all the institutions of society cannot be de-
stroyed by child's play. He who wars with
effect against it, must needs be a strong man
strong in the omnipotence Of truth, strong
in a determined purpose. 1t requires patient,
unceasing hJor to reform the public senti-
ment, to ~re.crcate the moral sense of commu-
nifty; and this must be done before slavery
will cease TO exist. He who hopes to accom-
plish this by a spaslnodic effort, knows but
little of the nature and philosophy of reform,
or of the character of the evil he wishes TO
destroy and those who are not prepared to
learn to labor, and to continue with patient,
unceaSing toll, had better not enter the anti
slavery field. The true, The effective aboli-
ZIONIST has no light task before him. lie has
formidable obstacles TO contend with and diff
ficulties to encounter, that the selfish little
dream of. He must expect 10 be reviled and
prosecuted, yet must toll on, even doing for
the hcaItless Knockers the neglected labor
God assigned them TO do. The true aboli-
zionist is emphatically a iUorkinS-ntan. He
know that without his efforts the cause he
loves will suffer, and he has learned to labor,
has learned 10 be constant in season and out
of season, has learned TO overcome discour-
agementS, and to laLor with others to induce
them 10 labor. Wherever work is 10 be done,
he is there ready, cheerfully, to give his SER
vices. 1t is such as these who are 10 redeem
the land, who are to remove slavery from ONT
midst; these, who give evidence of their
faith by their work, who scatter broadcast
" the seed wheat of humanity not impatient
for the harvest, but Mailing in confidence and
hope for the termination of the seed, the
growth Of the blade, and the ripening Of the
ear.
He who hath appointed seed-time, hath
likewise appointed the season for harvest
and they who despond because their laboI
I does not produce immediate returns, whC
have not yet learned to Vait, until the cause
I by the Interchangeable laws of nature, has pro
, duced the effect, would seem to nave bat lit
: tie faith in the vitality Of truth, and its pow
j er to expand and to grow. That husband
: man is no philosopher, who, when he seat
: tels his seed in the Autumn, is unwilling t
l wait for the succeeding Summer to bring
i harvest, CT who desponds because Winte
o covers with snow the field he has planted
As in the natural, so in The moral world
:, The Reformer must SOW in faith, KNOWN
that sooner or later the harvest will come
and though he may not live 10 see the VIII
tened field, yet his labors shall be blest I
others. The poet who said,
5, "Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate,
Still achieving, still pursuing,
10 Learn to labor and TO watt"
understood the true spirit of reform, and Il
means by which Good is to be esta bllshe
a. and Evil oyeTlhrown.