The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-05-30

of ST. Marks Church.
~r will not leave you comfortless. /
VII come TO you" John xiv:ls-
This Sunday between Ascension Gay
and fUlsitsantay .s sometimes called tx
rsesssatlos Sunday. These ten days tnat
~ians<d between the ascension OF jesus
ard the coming OF the Holy Spirit were
dayS of waiting. Some of the hiscipfes
expected that Christ himself would come
again. Ali through that first age Oh the
church Christ expected. ana even
after in every age there has been look
ing for the Lord. people falling to discern
TIE spiritual meaning Of the words %
xrnrai@e that henceforth the lie oil the
Christ was to b. continued Ia the me OF the
Cpirst Ii was the gift Of the Holy srnosI
az pentecost that fulfilled the promise VI
Christ. We stand today. then, In the sf''i'
Of expectafior-a word frsught with mean
ing That stirS the heart, that ~nifas me
roas,d" In its root sense IL means 10 ieSk
OUT. Fafti, is to look In. introspection.
Hose Is To look out-expectation Despair
Is 10 look down. degradation. hope Is AKIN
to expectation. IL comes from the same
root IS open Ard cape Perhaps u was
sugrastea BIZ the gaping Of the bindings
waiting I'm their nest for the naother-bird
TO bring the food. Perhaps 1T was the I'M
folding of the flowers or the break OF day
or - fu,i-biosSomed trees filing all the
s.r with fragrance and with JOY. Hope.
expectation. belong To sprfnetime to May
DAYS. Every May Sunday Is an expecta-
ten SUNDAY.
ION Sunday heavens gates stand ope:
Blessings are plentiful and rife.
More plentiful than hope
Is IL not what the world needs? What
We all need--expectations II seems as
though the Christ were at this particular
time speaking to many disappointed lives.
hardened hearts. struggling nations, !
will not leave you comfortiess- ! viii come
10 YOU" III how many, many ways may
the spirit of the Christ come into the lives
of those who walt and watch. What
would the werld be how could life go on
without the spirit OF expectation How
many are the children of hope All great
men have been men OF expectation. Co
lumhus Newton Bacon. Milton, In differ
eut ways. but with the same spirit. open
ed their lives to large and larger gifts.
Expectation. though allied To hope. has
still different phase of meaning. Ii Is
both stronger and weaker than hope.
stronger in the way of adding TO mere de-
sire a conviction Of realization: weaker. In
the way Of admitting evil We'll as good
as an object OF expectancy. We can hardly
use hope In relation to unpleasant things.
A man never hopes for that which is harm
full: he may expect evil, but he does not
hope for Ii. Hope IL always good. 1t Is
what man can least afford to give up. How
glorious to see man still hopeful In spite
of repeated misfortunes. Would that ex-
pectafion might also center only In the
good: Let us redeem the word. The ten
dency is to apply the term exclusively TO
the undesirable. The better use is To open
the future with gladness. People are too
prone to invent trouble. TO anticipate mis-
fortune sickness. 10 look ahead
with foreboding. mot knowing what things
laden with fears: all sorts OF difficulties
are conjured up. and many a conflict Is
fought out inwardly when there Is TO be no
battle at all. These are the persons whom
Emerson says are always looking for "a
black star riding through the light and col
orsd clouds In the sky overhead" Here Is
one who is continually planning to be sick
II there Is contagion in the town, il Is
forthwith expected for this household The
annual visitation OF la grippe is entertained
long in advance and the body made ready
for the guest. Another counts upon having
accidents: he Is afraid TO travel lest danger
eusue. Every day suggests possibilities Il
mishaps. Another forcstalis financial loss
by any amount OF anxiety. An evil imagfn-
alton may diseolor life so that scarcely a
trace of the original glory is left. The RAJ
dance Is faded out through evil expecta-
ton. Says an old French verse:
sosifs OF your Eftffs you nave cured,
And thS sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments OF pain you endured
From evils that never arrived"
Why not change expectation into hopeg
81 not this good time of the year to be-
gias Mey we not. with the sweetest sing
CT. make our song.
''Bosold. We know not anything:
/ easi cut telst that good shaN fall
4: iest--fsr ofY--at Inst. TO all
And every winter change ~ spring"
Why not this summer. this May sun
day. expectation day, Tool; for good
things, not evil. look out. above, and be-
liese that ALI is going "a work out for the
best We may cultivate, II we wish. the
habit NJ looking for joys rather than FOR
serrcwS. fer pleasures instead OF for pains.
Tor blessings In place of burdens. We hear
II said that II have formed the habit OF
df4ading the future Why not transform
the habit "a welcoming the future trusting
IN the DAYS fh9t are 10 come having faith
IN ourselves in others and i'm Cod Il will
no; leave yea cornfertless. says .he
Christ ard he viii not If we only open the
heart 10 receive the gift when be sends T.;
the blessed gist Of the holy comforter.
Make this practical Don't think II is GO
ing IN rain every day. and when IL does
rain thank God for II and for the fruits /;
helps ia hfsng. All real blessings come
Darkness has its use as Well as the light.
ARIA hope sees the light ahead even when II
IS very dark all around. A common saying
Is mot shadow of hone" II Is = wrong
metaphor Hope has no shadows; it dis
rels shadows. II should be "a ray If
hop@." hnt never iu the negative. There Is
always a ray. And how piercing and peae-
tfatsug These rays of hope. They are more
wondeFful far than the rsys that open up
the body. Hopes rays pass through worlds
and discioss the unseen universe tn AL It's
marvellous forms OF Hfc and love. Heaven
IS opened hS hope How is helps a man "a
have thtS divine spirit OF expectancy. How
s. cheers alin tn his work and Sfsoothsz cut
teg daily difficulties. Why the very cxpec-
fancy helps one 20 attainment. Let Il man
really expect something and expect Ii hard
enough aua long enough. and other things
hctnG o1usl no Will generally get what he
aims 10 have. Putting ones mind suit
cienslN upoa thing - part OF the power
by wateh enc lays hold upon what ne
wants. There - something very mysterious
o. this mind power by which the soul ars-
rrcnTistes ~ advance the desired ohiees
Accidents may intervene Unforeseen nfn-
ar4ne~s @sy prevent the realization Yes
bus granting all this Il Is better sfill 10
expect shan ~ give 10. better "a held Oh
81 hare tran ta he down r. despair.
Taxing s!sis cheerful viyyx 81 sxtenefstfs,s,
snd poNaT resides VITA checYftsgn,,ss I,
russ IS IN a working nscea these summer
days Anything that ~iH give ere inspirt.
harm % - right on ard 90 sae duty saag lies