Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-06-25

seeing no intermission of daily care for these
impulsive spirits, and ceaseless ministry to
their tickle impulses, sigh over your bond
age BE patient Think of Gods pa
tience with His family-a thousand millions
here on the earth alone-deadly quarres
going on among them all the time, cheating
between brethren, wildness with greed for
gold, millions Of them never looking up to
thank the hand that feeds them during their
life. Think how He looks down, and sees
millions bound in compulsory servitude to
other millions-sees great multitudes meet
in the madness of war to slaughter one
another sees a whole world lying in wick
edness, carelessness and ingratitude. Mark
how He causes the seasons to come and go,
how seed-time and harvest fail not, how
His unwearied servant the sun shines on
the evil and the good alike, how the gentle
rain falls with no discrimination on the just
and the unjust. Think how He patiently
bears with your impatence. Listen !
There comes no outcry from the heavens, to
still all this wild unrest but gently, pa
tiently the ministry of nature and of Provi-
dence proceeds from day to day and from
year to year-as gently and patiently, and
unremittingly, as if it were universally
greeted with gratitude, and nourished only
plants that were blossoming with praise.
Can you not be patient with the little ones
you love for little while You really
ought to be ashamed Of impatience, with
such an example Of patience as God gives,
especially as you are sharer in its benefits
Discouraged pastor, mourning over the
lack of results in your ministry, do you
sometimes get impatient with the listless-
ness and coldness Of your flock, and rail at
them in good set terms ? Surely you have
forgotten who and what you are. You
are Gods minster-the promugator of
his religion. He sent the Great Teach
er to the earth eighteen hundred years ago;
aud those to whom He was sent maligned
Him, doubted Him, prosecuted and killed
Him. For 1900 years He has patiently
waited to see the religion Of Jesus establish
ed in the earth, she is waiting patiently still,
though it spreads so slowly that its progress
from century to century can hardly be trac-
cd. He planted the true seed, and he is
confident that it will germinate and grow,
until its branches shall fill the whole earth
He has confidence in His truth; have you?
| Can you not be content like Him, to plant,
and nourish, and water, and tenderly prune,
and trust for the issue He has distinctly
told you that with all your planting and
watering the increase is only of Him ? II
Won are faithful in these Offices, and get SO
impatient for results, does it not occur to
you that you are getting quite as impa
tient with God as you are with your peo-
pie If He have reason for Withholding
increase, you have no reason to find fault.
The work is His, the results are His-they
are not yours Therefore be content to
work and wait, for no man can work in
perfect harmony with God who is not as
willing to wait as to work. God works
and waits always, and in everything, and
you are a discCrd in the economy of His
universal scheme the moment you become
impatient.
Champion of Truth, Lover of humanity,
hater of wrong, do You grow tired and dis
gusted with your fellows Do you grow
angry when you contemplate instituted cru
city ? Are you tempted to turn your back
upon those whom you have striven to bless,
when they stop there ears, or laugh you in
the face Do you feel your spirit stirred
with deep disgust, or swelling with rage,
when those to whom you have given your
best life-your nobleSt love, your most hu-
name impulses, your truest ideal of that
which is good-contemn you, misconstrue
you, and persecute you when those whom
you seek to reform brand You as a pestilent
fellow, disturber and busy body 1t
is very natural that you should do so, but
it is far from godlike. BE patient. If
this world of natural beauty was not made
in minute if it had to go through con-
WILSON'S changes age after age, before the
flowers could grow and the maise could
spring, think you that the little drop of vi
tai power that is in you can reform the
world of mind, and bring ont of chaos the
realization of the fair ideal that is in you
in the brief space of your life Pour in
to your age your whole life, if it be pure
and good, and be sure that you have done
somethng-your little all. There shall be
no drop of that life wasted Where you
put it there it shall be, an atom in the slow
ly rising monument of world redeemed to
goodness.
If you cannot take counsel of God in
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take it from the most insignificant Of His
creatures-the madrepores that build is
lands covered with gardens of wonderful
beauty under the sea. The little polype may
be discouraged when it sees how little it
can do in the creation of the coral world
to which, by law of its nature, it is bound
to contribute But it gives to this world
the entire results Of its little life-a calca-
reous atom-and then it dies. But that
atom is not lost God takes care of that
All he asks of the madrepore is its life, and
though it may not witness the glory of the
structure it assists to rear, it has place
in the structure-an essential place-and
there it is glorifed. Through those strange
| ly fashioned trees the green sea sweeps, &
wondering monsters swim and stare, till,
little by little, as the ages with heavy feet
tramp over the upper earth, they rear
themselves into the light, and hold the tur-
bulent sea asleep beneath the smile of God
Little by little they lay the foundations up
on which a new life rests, and become the
eternal pillars of temple in which man
worships, and from which his voice of praise
ascends to Heaven Therefore if the pa
tience of God do not inspire and instruct