Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-03-21
A Patient Heart.

The Culver.
All of us want to give something to
God. You hear OF Others giving time,
money, service, and it is a grief to
you that you have nothing to render
to the great and tender Physician for
whom others are so busy. Once you
could take your place in His vineyard
and feel yourself of some little use to
God and man, but now something
whispers to your heart that you Are 4
cumberer of the ground, and can ren>
der nothing to the Lord for all His
benefits toward you. Those wise men
must have rejoiced they could bring
the newborn Saviour gold, franklin
cense, and myrrh, but a little Sunday
school scholar said to me once, "The
shepherds did better still; they gave
Christ themselves. 1t is in your pow.
er today to bring to the Master very
precious Offering, whatever your cir
cumstances may feel. If He needed
you just now in the vineyard,
you would be there; if he required
money from your purse, He would
have first put it therein; if He re-
quirPd the service that health and
strength can render, His loving hand
would not have weakened your
strength in the way. This little
verse will show you what you can
render to the Lord:
"My full days work is done:
And this isall my part
| give patient God
Ny pdtidnt heart"
Or is it an impatient one you offer
to Him just now? Perhaps you feel
inclined to say, Ibid you know all,
you would not wonder at my fretful~
ness. There is this worry. and that
worry, and the other, and infrmities
have laid hold upon me, and nothing
goes ON as it would do were l well
enough to see to things. Nobody
cares about a poor creature like me
now, and am all alone"
But even if it were possible that
not one of your fellow creatures cared
about you, which 1 think in your
heart you know they do, still you
would be the object of such love; at
this moment, amid all the pains and
anYieties and weakness, it is as true
that god loves as that God lives; and
as to your being all alone, do not for
get that the great wise, merciful Lord
has said, Certainly | will be with
thee"
Friend, if your Master loves you SO
truly and is with you now, can you
not bring forth the fruit of patience ?
True, the way seems long and mys-
FERROUS, and past finding out, but
what He is doing He will explain to
you hereafter; just now what he asks
of you is patient faith.
1t will help you to be patient when
you remember that the toughest
hardest part is given to those whom
the Commander most trusts and hon
ors. The hardest lesson is given tC
the scholar who will do the teacher
the most credit. 1t is not because
you have .fdiled, but because you
have glorified God in the sunshine
that now he gives you the highest
training of ALTO be made perfec
through the things you suffer.
so impatient Ones" cried a goOC
minister now in the land where there
is no unrest, edo the leaves say moth
ing to yOu?" He pointed out thai
their glory is not the creation of al
hour, every leaf.stem has a cradle il
an infant germ, and rocking winds
and rain as well as sunshine, vii
cause its beauty by-and-by to unfold
And thus is God working for you
accept His winds and His rain, be
lieve in His unshadowed hereafter
and deny not to Him who is mind
full of his own, q patient heart.
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