Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-25
PATIENCE.


OF all virtues patience is the easiest to
practice Or will tne reader say it is the
hardest ? 1t is only waiting; Is it not
easy enough to wait ? 1t is not doing with
laborious and weariSome exertions. 1t is
not resolution squirting on the weak or
reluctant mind. 1t is not courage in the
midst Of dangers which the common mind
might fear. 1t is keep still; and is it
virtue to keep still {? 1t is much needed
in domestic life, and in many private and
public relationships. Can we not have
more of it? And is it some delusion that
enables us to say it IS only through mo-
mentary thoughtlessness that we ever
violate its important acquisitions It. Is
so great IN excellence that, upon thought
we shall find it the prime element OF all
others, at least Of which partake In any
way of self-Genial. 1t is not exercised
alone in waiting for dilatory friend to
ride or walk with US in suffering IN our
poverty the long delay of the debtors
promise in endurance of the tedious cum
ming Of the suit-at-law. The vices and
crimes Of individuals are eminently OWING
to want OF patience. The slave OF IN
temperance thinks he cannot wait till ms
appetite shall have passed. He cannot
wait till sleep shall over take him, and he
forgets it. He cannot wait till he can
reach better company than his own soh-
tude or his common companions, and he
Will be ashamed of indulgence, and find
denial easy in the society of the pure and
good. He cannot wait, waking and alone,
till the fire is consumed and his nature Is
all calm again and Impotence, doubtless,
is the cause Of a large proportion OF the
intemperance of the land. The child IN
early years was never taught to wait.
What it wanted it wanted at the moment;
and at the moment the parent always
fastened to crafty its imperious desires.
We need have no laws for the suppresslonot
intemperance, none to prohibit or license
the sale of liquor, if we could only in some
way teach men to wait. And the passion
that demands relief in the use of intoxcat-
ing drinks is the type of all other passions,
all to find their remedy in the same way.
Revenge would stay its hand if it would
only consider. The grosser vices that de-
stroy the body and the soul would change
to health and purity if the guilty would
but wait to know what they are about
The irritations of domestic life and COM
mon relationships that impel to unkind
words, unkind deeds, and 10 alterations
| and hatreds would never be allowed indul-
gence if people would but wait before they
spoke, or thought, or felt. And theSdis-
taste that some have for the society of
their fellowmen, which they think them
selves comes from a. sense they have of the
unworthiness of other people, might find its
easy remedy in PATIENCE patience that
can look for the origin Of peoples evil and
the way to the end of it, and can overlook
the pressing view and take knowledge of
existing virtues also. Impatience is some
times sort of arrangement, From be-
ing habit of thought it gets to be habit
of body. 1t is arrangement Of ideas come
out of their proper order arrangement of
the nervous system also the blood quick
ening along it currents, habitually rushing
up to overfil the brain. And their habit
ual arrangement, though it may not be
great enough to send its victim to an in
sane asylum, but only enough to make
friends and family wish that he would
hold his tongue, or stop his crossness, Is,
during its seeming observation-disclosures as
as much an insanity, though not as great
degree of it, as the rawlings of the maniac
which also are sometimes cured by con-
tinued efforts Of seH-control. The irritable,
impatient, passionate man, what ever. form
that his passion may assume, for in spirit
they are all the same, only the manifesto
ton being different-needs often the COM
posing draught to quiet his nerves as much
as the crazy man does. Happy if he has
allowed his Impotence so to get the
better of himself that he cannot al
ways control it by just a moments con
sideration.