The Washington weekly post., 1900-12-04

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4 piness and the su-est entranee of him
who would not translress the laws of
4 God or man DR.. Talmage took for his
text Hebrews. x:36, ''Ye have need Of pa
I tsence," and said:
Yes. We are in awful need OF It; some
OF US have little Of 1t, and some of us
| nave none az all. There is less of this
grace in the world than of almost any
other. Faith, hope, and charity are all
ahioom In hundreds of souls, where you
find one specimen Of patience. Paul, the
| author of the text, on a conspicuous oc-
casion, lost his patience with a co-worker.
and from the way he urges this virtue
upon the Hebrews. upon the Corinthians,
apon the Thessalonians, upon the RO-
mans. upon the Colossians, upon the
young theological student. Timothy.
conclude he was speaking out OF his own
need CT more of this excellence. And i
only wonder that Paul had any nerves
left In fisonment, fageIlation, Mediter-
ranean cyclone, arrest for treason and
conspiracy, the wear and tear of preach
ing to angry mobs. those at the door of
a theater and those on the rocks of Mars
| Hill, left him emaciated and invalid, and
with a broken voice, and sore eyes, and
| nerves ajangle 1t gives us a snapsho;
of himself when he describes his appear
ance and his sermonic delivery by saying
| In bodily presence weak, and In speech
| contemptible,' and refers TO his infiamed
eyelids when, speaking Of the ardent
| friendship OF the Galatians, he says, III
| it had been possible ye would have pluck
| ed out your own eyes, and have given
| them TO me- We all admire most that
which we have least of-those of us with
urimpressive visage most admire beauty;
| those of us with discordant voice most
eXtol musical cadence; those of us with
stammering speech most wonder at elo-
auence; those OF US VINO get provoked at
trifies and are naturally irascible, appre-
ciate in others the equipoise and the calm
| endurance of patience. So Paul, with
hands tremulous with the agitations OF a
| lifetime, writes of the God of patience
and of Ministers of God in much pa
| tience.' and of Patience of hope and
| tells them to follow after patience and
wants them to run with patience, and
speaks of those strengthened with ali
might TO all patience, and looks US all
| full in the face as he makes the start
ling charge, 'Ye have need Of patience.
Some of the people ordinarily most ex-
| cellent have a deficit in this respect
That man who is the impersonatior OF
amiability his mouth full of soft words
| and his face a spring morning, IL a
passing wheel splash mud across his
| broadcloth, see how he colors up, and
! hear him denounee the passing Jehu.
The Christian woman an angel of suavity,
now that some social slight is put upon
| her or her family, hear how her utterance
| increases in intensity One of the ablest
| ministers of the Gospel in America. stop
| ping at a hotel in town where he had
an evening engagement, was interrupted
| in his afternoon nap by knock at the
/ door by a minister who mad come 10 wei
| come him, and after the second and third
knock the sleeper opened the door and
| took the invader of his repose by the coll
| lar and twisted il with a force, that If
continued would have been strangula-'
| ton
When Patience Is Not Needed.
"Oh, II 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 ward
robe is crowded with apparel appropriate
| for the cold, or the heat, or the wet, and
| all the family have attested their health
| by keen appetites ar loaded table. and
| the newspapers, if they mention US at all,
put right construction upon what We do
| or say, and we can walk ten miles with
, out 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 anywhere in
| your house you have no more need OF IL
| than of a life-preserver while you are
| walking the pavement of a city; no more
need of il than of an umbrella under
| cloudless sky, no more need of IL than of
| Sir Humphrey Davy's safety lamp for
miners while you are breathing the tonic
air of an October morning. Do not boast
that you are placid and optimistic and
free from the spirit of scold. If those
VINO are unfortunte could change lots
with you they would be just as sunshiny.
/ II is not religion that makes you so hap
| py, but capacity 10 digest your food in
| three hours and enough coupons cut OF
| to meet all your expenses, and cempli-
mentary mention, and capacity 10 leave
your horses in the stable because you
need a brisk walk down the Avenue. The
| recording angel making a pen out of
some plume of bird OF paradise. Is not
getting ready to write opposite your name
/ anything applauGatory. All your sublime
| equilibrium of temperament is the result
| of worldly success.
"But suppose things nightly change
! with you, as they sometimes do change.
/ You begin 10 go down hill, and 1t Is anaz-
| ing how many there are 10 help you down
| when you begin TO go in that direction
/ A great investment fails. The Colorado
/ silver mine ceases 10 yield. You get land
poor. Your mills, that yielded maryels or
/ wealth, are eclipsed by mills with newly
| invented machinery. You get under the
/ feet of the bears of Wall street. For the
| first time in your life, you need 10 borrow
money, and no one is willing 10 lend.
/ Under the narrowing worriment you get
1 distressful feeling at the base Of your
brain. Insomnia and nervous dyspepsia
| lay hold of you. Your health goes down
| with your fortune. Your circle or &C
| quaintances narrows, and where once you
| were oppressed by the fact that you had
/ not time enough 10 return one-half OF the
! social calls made upon you, now the card
basket in your hallway is empty, and your
| chief callers are your creditors and the
| family physician. who comes 70 learn the
effect of the last prescription. Now You
! understand how people can become pessi-
| mistic and cynical and despairful. You
/ have reached that stage yourself. Now
| you need something that you nave net.
A Baiwark In Adversiry.
'sBut I know of a reinforcement that
YOU can have If you viii accept II. Yon-
der comes up the road or the sidewalk q
messenger OF God. Her attire is un2re-
tending. She has no wings, for she is not
| an angel, but there is something in her
countenance that implies rescue and de
| liverance. She comes up the steps that
once were populous with the affluent. aid
| getting faded and frayed. the place now
all empty of worldly admirers will tell
you her name if you would Ike 10 know
il. Paul baptized her. and gave her the
| right name She is not brilliant. but
| strong. There is a deep quiethood in her
manner, and firmness in her tread, and
| IA her hand Is a scroll revealing her mis-
sion. She comes from heaven. she was
born in the throne room or the King.
| This is Patience 'Ye have need OF pa
! tience'
MANY OF the nations OF the earth have
! nut their admiration OF this virtue INTO
/ proverh or eplgram- One OF those Last
| ern proverbs says, With time and pa.
| tience the mulberry leaf becomes satin
| A snanish proVerb says. IF l have lost
fhe rfnrs. here are the fingers still The
| Italian proverb says. The world Is his
who has patience. The Engnsh prvssto
| declares. when ore door shuts, another
y opens All these proverbs only put IN