Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-12-12
SERMON
Rev. DR.. CaImlage

Subject: Lack ofPatience-Faith. Hope ana
CHARITY Bloom In Many Hearts Where
the Grace of Patience Ii wanting-PitJ
Rather Than Condemn the Erring.
rcepyrisht lssal
WASHINGTON, D. C!This discourse OF
DR.. Talmage is q full length portrait OF q
virtue which all admire, and the lessons
taught are very helpful; text, Hebrews Z,
IS, Eye have need of patience.
Yes. we are in awful need of it. Some
of us have little of it, and some OF US
have none at ALL There is less OF this
grace in the world than of almost any
other. Faith, hope and charity are all
abloom in hundreds of souls where you
find one specimen of patience. Paul, the
author of the text, on conspicuous occa-
sion lost his patience with coworker,
upon the Hebrews, upon the Corinthians,
upon the Thessalonians, upon the Ko-
mans, upon the Colossians, upon the
young theological student, Timothy, l
conclude he was speaking out OF his own
need of more of this excellence. And l
only wonder that Paul had any nerves lett.
Imprisonment, fagellation, Mediterranean
| cyclone, arrest for treason and eonspir-
| acy, the wear and tear of preaching to
angry mobs, those at the door of thea
| tire and those ON the rocks of Mars hill,
| left him emaciated and invalid and with
| broken voice and sore eyes and nerves a.
| jangle. He gives us a snap shot OF HIM
| self when he describes his appearance and
his sermonic delivery by saying, I'm bodily
presence weak and in speech contemptl-
| ble" and refers to his inftamed eyelids
when, speaking of the ardent friendship of
| the Galatians, he says, "1f it had been
| possible, We would have plucked out your
| own eyes and have given them to me-.
| We all admire most that which we have
| least Of Those of us with unimpressive
visage most admire beauty; those of us
with discordant voice most extol musical
| cadence; those of us with stammering
speech most wonder at eloquence; those
| of us who get provoked at trifes and are
| naturally irascibe appreciate in others the
eauopoise and the calm endurance of pa
thence. So Paul, with hands tremulous
with the agitations of lifetime, writes Of
the "God of patience and Of ministers
of God in much patience" and of patience
of hope" and tells them to follow after
patience" and wants them to run with
patience" !" and speaks of those strength
ened with all might to all patience, and
looks us all full in the face as he makes
the startling charge, Eye have need OF
| patience"
The recording angel, making a pen out
|
getting ready to write opposite your name
anything applaudatory. All your sublime
equilibrium of temperament is the result
of worldly success. But suppose things
nightly change with you, as they some
times do change. You begin to go down
hill, and it is amazing how many there are
to help you down when you begin to go IN
that direction. A great investment fails
The Colorado silver mine ceases to yield
You get land poor; your mills, that yield
ed marvels of wealth, are eclipsed BY
mills with newly inv,.nted machinery; yct
net under the feet .,f the bears Of Wal
31sfees E6k BE First time q youea!e ys: 2.
ing to lend. Under the narrowing worri
ment you get distressful feeling at thu
base of your brain. Insomnia and nervous
dyspepsia lay hold of you. Your health
goes down with your fortune; your circle
: of acquaintance narrows, and where onc'
you were oppressed by the fact that yo'
had not time enough to return one-half o
card basket in your hallway is empty, ant
: your chief callers are your creditors ant
the family physician, who comes to learI
, the effect of the last prescription: Nov
you understand how people can becom
pessimistic and cynical and despairful
You have reached that stage yourself
Now you need something that you hav
D
you can have if you will accept it. Yon
der comes up the road or the sidewalk
messenger Of God. Her attire is unpre
= tending. She has no wings, for she is no
q an angel, but there is something in he
countenance that implies rescue and deliy
. erance. She comes up the steps that ono
were populous with the affiuent and int
the hallway where the tapestry is gettin
/ faded and frayed, the place now all empt
of worldly admirers. 1 will tell you he
name if you would like to know it. Pau
0 baptized her and gave her the right name
) She is not brilliant, but strong. There
e a deep quiethood in her manner and
firmness in her tread, and IN her hand IS
scroll revealing her mission. She come
from heaven. She was born in the thron
S room of the King. This is Patience. "Y
l. have need of patience"
!. First, patience with the faults of other!
:. No one keeps the Ten Commandment
u equally well. Ones temperament decide
Q which commandments he shall come neal
: est to keeping. If we break some OF tn
Z commandments ourselves, why be SO har
i. on those who break others of the ten?
you and I run against one verse of tn
twentieth chapter of Exodus, why shoul
: we SO severely excoriate those who ru
a against another verse of the same chaI
n ter? Until we are perfect ourselves "
ought to be lenient with our neighbor
e imperfections. Yet it is often the cas-
, that the man most vulnerable is the mos
O hypercritical. Perhaps he is profane an
!. vet has no tolerance for theft, when prt
family is worse than theft, for, while tn
latter is robbery of a man, the former
, robbery of God. Perhaps he is given t
6 defamation and detraction and yet fee
e himself better than some one who
r guilty of manslaughter; not realizlng tina
the assassination of character Is the wors
II kind of assassination. The laver for wasl
ing in the ancient tabernacle was at il
v side FURNISHED like looking glass, so tha
a those that approached that laver migf
see their need of washing, and if by til
c gospel looking glass we discovered our ow
e need of moral cleansing we would be moi
economic of denunciation. The most I
those who go wrong are the victims of Gu
cumstances, and if you and l had bee
), rocked in the same iniquitous cradle, an
been all our lives surrounded by the sam
# baeful influences we would probably ha,
r done just as badly, perhaps worse.
? We also have need of patience with slo
r results of Christian work. We want
see our attempts to do good immediatel
l. successful The world is improving, b,
1t improving at so deliberate rate; why NJ
% more rapidity and momentum? Oth'
= wheels turn so swiftly; why not the go
- pei chariot take electric speed? l do NJ
J. know. I only know that it is Gods wa
'e We whose cradle and grave are SO near t
e gether have to hurry up, but God. WI
10 manages this world and the universe,
:. from everlasting to everlasting. He TAX
I. 500 years to do that which He could do
al five minutes. His clock strikes once in
Y. thousand years. While God took only
n week to fit up the world for human res
- dence, geogolgy reveals that the found
W tions of the world were cons in being lai
'e and God watched the glaciers, and the fir
W and the earthquakes, and the volcanoes
N through centuries and millenniums tn,
=. were shaping the world before that la
week that put on the arborescence.
few days ago my friend was talking with
geologist As they stood near a pile
rocks my friend said to the scientist,
suppose these rocks were hundreds
of thousand is of years in construction" Al
rt the geologist replied, Eyes, and you mig
8 sax millions Of wears for no one kno