Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-12-07
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
SPEAKS ON ONE OF THE CHIEF
CHRISTIAN VIRTUES.
The Need of Grace in the Affairs O.
Daily Llfe-Turns DIscord Into Harf
n1Ony - Final Reward of Patience
Causes OF Pessimism.

Causes OF Pessimism.
Copyright. 1900. Louis Klopsch. N. "
aSnIngtOn, Dec. 2.-TnlS discourse
OF DR.. Talmage is a full length portrait
OF virtue which all admire, and the
lessons taught are very helpful; text,
Hebrews Y, SO, ''Ye have need of pa
tience."
Yes, We are in awful need of it. Some
of us have a 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 pa
tience Paul. the author of the text,
on a conspicuous occasion lost his
patience with a cO-worker, and from
the way he urges this virtue upon the
Hebrews, upon the Corinthians, upon
the ThessalOnians, upon the Romans,
upon the ColOssians, upon the young
theological student Timothy, / con-
clude he was speaking out of his own
need Of more of this excellence. And
l only wonder that Paul had any
nerves left. Imprisonment, fagella-
ton, Mediterranean cyclone. arrest for
treason and conspiracy. the wear and
tear of preaching to angry mobs, those
at the door of a theater and those on
the rocks of Mars hill, left him ema-
ciated and invalid and with broken
voice and sore eyes and nerves a-jan
gle. He gives us a snapshot OF him
self when he describes his appearance
and his sermonic delivery by saying
'In bodily presence weak and In
speech contemplate. and refers to his
in1amed eyelids when speaking Of the
ardent friendship of the Galatians he
says. IF it had been possible, We
would have plucked out your own eyes
and have given them to me-"
Patience Under Difficulties.
Some of the people ordinarily most
excellent have deficit in this respect.
That man who is the impersonation of
amiability, his mouth full of soft
words and his face a spring morning,
II a passing wheel splash the mud
across his broadcloth, see how he col
orS up. and hear him denOunce the
passing jehu. The Christian woman
an angel of suavity, now that some So
cial slight is put upon her or her fam
lily, hear how her utterances increase
intensity. One of the ablest and best
ministers of the gospel in America,
stopping at hotel in a town where he
had an evening engagement was in
terrupted in his afternoon nap by a
knock at the door by a minister who
had come to welcome him, and after
the second and third knock the sleeper
opened the door and took the invader
OF his repOse by the collar and twisted
II with a force that, if continued,
would have been strangulation. oh.
IL is easy enough to be patient when
there is nothing to be patient about.
When the bank account is good and in
no danger of being overdrawn, and
the wardrobe is crowded with apparel
appropriate for the cold, or the heat.
or the wet, and all the family have at
tested their health by keen appetiteS at
loaded table. and the newspapers. if
they mention us at all, put right con-
structiOn upon what we do or say, and
We can walk ten miles without getting
tired and we sleep eight solid hours
without turning from side to side.
the most useless grace | can think Of
is patience. 1t has no business any
where in your house, you have no
more need of it than a life preserver
while you are walking the pavement
of a city. no more need of it than an
umbrella under a cloudless sky, no
more need Of it than of Sir Humphrey
Davy's safety lamp for miners while
you are breathing the tonic air of an
October morning.
Causes of Pessimism.
Now you understand how people can
become pessimistic and cynical and
despairful You have reached that
stage yourself Now you need some
thing that you have not But / know
OF reinforcement that you can have
II you will accept it. Yonder comes up
the road or the sidewalk a messenger
OF God Her attire is unpretending
She has DO wings, for she is not an
angel, but there is something in her
countenance that implies rescue and
deliverance. She comes up the steps
that once were populous with the af-
fluent and into the hallway where the
tapestry is getting faded and frayed
the place now all empty of worldly ad-
mirers. / will tell you her name if
you would like to know it. Paul bap-
tiZed her and gave her the right
name She is not brilliant. but strong
There is deep quiethood in her man
ner. and a firmness in her tread, and
in her hand is a scroll revealing her
mission. She comes from heaven. She
was born in the throne room of the
King. This is Patience. "Ye have
need of patience"
Many of the nations Of the earth
have put their admiration of this vir-
tue into proverb or epigram One of
those eastern proverbs says, with
time and patience the mulberry leaf
becomes satin" Spanish proverb
says. eff | have lost the rings. here
are the fingers still" The Italian pro-
verb says, 1.-The world is his who has
patience" The English proverb de-
clares, When one door shuts, anoth-
er opens" All these proverbs only
put in another way Paul's terseness
when he says, 'Ye have need of pa
tience'
Warm Hearted Christians.
But here comes warm hearted,
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