The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-13

as compared with what we shall build in
the next life, is as striped shell TO Aus
tralia
You go into an architects study and
there you see the sketch of a temple
the Cornerstone of which has not yet
| been laid Oh. tina. | could have an archi-
tectural sketch of what you will be after
eternity has wrought upon you, What
| pillars Of strength! What altars of
supernal worship! What piunacles thrust
| ing their glittering spikes into the sun
| that never SETS, You do not sCold the
corallines because they cannot build an
island IN day. Why should you scOid
yourself because you cannot complete 4
| temple of holiness for the heart in this
! short lifetime? You tell NE We do not
amount to much now, but try us after a
| thousand million ages of hellelujah. Let
US hear the angels chant for a million
centuries Give us an eternity with God,
and then see if We do rot amount 10 some
| thing More slowly and marvelously ac-
cumulative is the grace in the soul than
anything / can th,Ek Of No mention
! shall be made Of coral
Deficient in Patience.
lord, help Us to learn that which most
of us are deficient in-patienee If thou
canst take. through the sea-anemones,
millions of years TO build one bank of
coral. ought we not to be willing 10 do
work through ten years or fifty years
without complaint, without restlessness,
without chafing of spirit? Patience with
the eTring; patience that We cannot have
the millennium in a few weeks; patience
with assault of antagonists; patience al
what seems slow fulilment of Bible
promises; patience with physical ailments;
patience under delays of Providence.
oil, IL
queriEg patience! Patience like that
which my lately ascended friend, DR..
Abel Stevens. describes when writing OF
one Of Wesley's preachers. John Nelson,
who when a man had him put in prison
by false charges, and being for a long
| time to-mented by his enemy, said: The
Lord lifted up a standard when the anger
vas coming in like a food, else l should
| have Wrung bis neck to the ground and
set my foot upon it, Patience like that
| OF Pericles the Atrenian statesman, whG,
when a man pursued him TO his own door,
| hurting at him epithets, and arriving
| there when IL had become dark, sent mis-
| servant with torch 10 light his enemy
back to his home. Patience like that
eulogized by the Spanish proVerb when
il says: i have lost the rings, but here
are the fingers still Patience! The
sN eetest sugar for the sourest cup; the
| balance-wheel tor all mental and moral
machinery, he foot that treads into
piacidity the stCrmies- lake; the bride for
otherwise rash tongues; the sublime 81,
| lencR that ConuuCrs the boisterous ana
| blatant. Patience like that of the most
/ illuStrious example OF all the aFes-JesuS
| Christ: patient under betrayal patient
under the treatmen. OF Pllate oyer ana ana
/ terrniner; patient under the expectoratiOn
| OF his assailants: patient under haget!a-
ten; patient under the charging spears
| OF the Roman cavalry. patitn unto death-
| Under al eXasperatlOns employ H. What
| ever comes. stand II; hold on, Wait' bear
up.
A Chi'd Of the Fire.
Take my hand again, and we will go a
little farther into this garden OF the sea-
and We shall find that in proportion as
the climate is hot the coral Is wealthy.
| Draw two lsothermal lines al sixty de-
grees north and south OF the equator. and
you find the favorite home OF the coral
! Go TO the hottest part OF the Pacific seas
and you find the finest specimens Of coral
Coral Is a child Of the fire. But more Won
derruny co the heats and fires of trouble
| bring out the jewels of the Christian
soul Those are not the s;slwart men
who are as,eep on the shaded lawn. but
those who are pounding amid the fur
naces. ! do not know or any other way ot
getting thorough Christian character
Il will show you picture. Here are q
I father and a mother thirty OF thirty-nve
years Of age, their family around them.
| II is Sabbath morning. They have pray
ers. They hear the children's catechism.
| They have prayers every day Of the week
! They are IN humble circumstances. But,
| after awhile the wheel OF fortune turns
! up. and the man gets his twenty thousand
dollars. Now he has pr'STers on Sabbath
and every day of the week. but he has
| dropped the eateeh!sm. The wheel of for
| tune turns up again. and he gets his