The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-08

wounds of the world that need thu
probe and the sharp knife and severe
surgery, but the most of the wounds
want an application Of ointment o.
salve. and we ought to have three
or four boxes of that gospel medica.
ment in our pocket as we go out into
the world We all need to carry more
of the balm of Gilead" and less caus.
tic, more benediction and less anathe-
ma. When | find professed Chris
tian man harsh and merciless in his
estimates of others, l silently wonder
If he has not been misusing trust
funds or beating his wife There is
something awful the matter with
him.
We also have need of patience with
slow results OF Christian work. We
want to see our attempts to do good
Immediately successful. The world is
improving, but improving at so delib-
crate a rate. Why not more rapidity
and momentum? Other wheels turn
so swiftly, why not the gospel chariot
take speed electric? l do not know
| only know that it is Gods way. We
whose cradle and grave are 80 near to-
gether have to hurry up, but God, who
manages this world and the universe,
is from everlasting to everlasting. He
takes 500 years to do that which He
could do in five minutes. His clock
strikes once in a thousand years.
While God took only a week to fit up
the world for human residence, geol-
ogy reveals that the foundations of
the world were cons in being laid, and
God watched the glaciers and the hres
and the earthquakes and volcanoes as
through centuries and milleniums they
were shaping this world, before that
last week that put on the arborescence.
A few days ago my friend was talk
ing with a geologist AS they stood
near a pile of rocks my friend said
to the scientist, 81 suppose these rocks
were hundreds of thousands OF years
in construction And the geclogist
replied, yes, and you might say NIL
lions Of years, for no one knows but
the Lord, and He won't tell" 1t 1t
took so long to make this world at
the start, be not surprised if it takes
a long while to make 1t over again
now that it has been ruined. The Ar
chitect has promised to reconstruct 1t,
and the plans are all made, and at
just the right time it will be so com
plete that it will be fit for heaven to
move in, if, according to the belief
of some of my friends, this world is
to be made the eternal abode of the
The wall of that temple Is
going up, and my only anxiety is to
have the one brick that | am trying
to make for that wall turn out to be
of the right shape and smooth on all
sides, so that the Master Mason will
not reject it, or have much work with
the trowel to get 1t into place.
Patience Under Injury
Again, we have need of patience un-
der wrong inflicted, and who escapes
It in some form? 1t comes to all peo-
pie in professional life in the shape of
being misunderstood. Because of this
how many people fly to newspapers for
an explanation. You see their card
signed by their own name declaring
hat they did not say this or did not
10 that. They fiuster and worry, not
that every man comes to be
aiken for what he is worth, and you
,annot by any newspaper puff be taken
or more than you are worth nor by
my newspaper depreciation be put |
lown. There is a spirit Of fairness
abroad in the world, and if you are
public man you are classified among |
he friends or foes of society. If you
ire friend of society, you will find |
,lenty of adherents, and if you are the
oe of society you cannot escape repre-
tension. Paul, you were right when
-ou said, not more to the Hebrews
han to us, eye have need of patience.
l adopted a rule years ago which has
,een of great service to me, and it
nay be of some service to you: Cheer
ully consent to be misunderstood
iod knows whether we are right or
wrong, whether we are trying to serve
lin or damage His cause. When you
an cheerfully consent to be misun-
erstood, many of the annoyances and
exations of life will quit your heart,
nd you will come into calmer seas
han you have ever sailed on. The
lost misunderstood being that ever
rod the earth was the glorious Christ.
he world misunderstood His cradle
nd concluded that one so poorly born
ould never be of much Importance.
hey charged Him with inebrlety and
allied Him a winebibber. The sanhe-
rim misunderstood Him, and when it
yas put to the vote whether He was
uilty or not of treason He got but
ne vote, while all the others voted
Aye. aye" They misunderstood His
ross and concluded that If He had di-
inc power He would effect His own
sseue. They misunderstood His
rave and declared that His body had
cen stolen by infamous resurrection
its. He so fully consented to be mis-
nderstood that, harried and slapped
nd submerged with scorn, he an.
wered not a word You cannot come
p to that, but you can initiate in