The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-12-14

fright time or for fear the structure
would be badly proportioned After IL
lis all done they may sometimes pass
by with a kit of tools and say with
some satisfaction, II helped build these
I~storehouses." So we are Cod work.
men. and all we have to do is to man.
Iage our own hammer or ak or trowel
until the night comes in which no man
lean work, and when the work is all
completed we will have a right to say
Ire~joicingly: Thank God, / vas priv
|eleged to help in the rearing OF tina
temple. / had a part in the work OF
the worlds redemption"
PATIENCE UNDER INJURY.
Again, we have need Of patience un-
der wrong inflicted, and who escapes it
i'm some form? 1t comes to all people
jim professional life in the shape of being
misunderstood. Because of this how
many people fly to newspapers for an
You see their card signed
Iby their own name declaring they did
mot say this or did not 10 that. They
Ifuster and worry, not realizing that
ievery man comes to be taken for what
lhe is worth, and you cannot by any
newspaper puff be taken for more than
you are worth nor by any newspaper
depreciation De put down. There is a
spirit of fairness abroad in the world,
land 90 you are a public man you are
classified among the frienus or Toes of
society. If you are a friend of society,
you will find plenty of adherents, and
III you are the foe of society you can
mot escape apprehension. Paul., you
were right when you said, not more to
tie Hebrews than to us, "Ye have need
of patience"
/ adopted a rule years ago which has
been of good service to me, and it may
be of some service to you Cheerfully
consent to be misunderstood. God
knows whether we are right or wrong,
IWhether we are trying to serve him or
damage his cause. When you can
lcheerfully consent to be misunderstood,
many of the annoyanceS and vexations
Iof life will quit your heart, and you
will come INTO calmer seas thai you
have ever sailed on. The most misun-
iderstood being that ever trod the earth
was the glorious Christ. The world
misunderstood his cradle and conclud-
ed that one so poorly born could never
be of much importance. They charged
him with inebriety and called him a
t~winebibber. The sanhedrin misunder-
stood him, and when it was put to the
vote whether he was guilty or not of
treason he got but one vote while all
the others voted Aye, aye" They
misunderstood his cross and conclud-
ed that if he had divine power he would
leffect his own rescue. They misunder-
lolooo lie grave duu O6cldTeQ tnat his
body had been stolen by Infamous res
urrectionists. He so fully consented to
be misunderstood that, harried inc
slapped and submerged with scorn, he
answered not a word. You cannot come
up to that, but you can initiate in some
small degree the patience of Christ.
1 admire exceedingly the behavior of
that farmer at Sedan, who, when the
great battle was going on between the
armies of Germany and France and
the air was-full of the sound of whis-
ltling bullets and bursting shells, kept
right on blowing in his field, making
straight burrows, now this way and now
that. He had his work to do, and as he
did not feel called to fight, he felt called
to plow. BravoI ! say for that man.
bravo; l say for you if you allow moth
ing to divert you and nothing to alarm.
Though all the artillery of human and
satanic hate rage about you, keep right
|on blowing.
PATIENCE UNDER PHYSICAL PAIN
Again, this grace is needed to help in
thine of physical ailments. What vast
multitudes are in perpetual pain while
Iothers are subject to occasional parox-
lysm! Almost every one has some dis
lorder to which he is occasionally sub
Jected. 1t is rheumatism or neuralgia
or sick headache or Indigestion. A
ldraft from an pen window or hasty
mastlcation or overwork brings on that
old spell, and you think you would
Tatner ave almost anything else, but
that is because you have not tried the
Iother. Almost every one has something
(which he wishes he had not. There are
scores OF diseases ever ready to attack
the human frame. They have beer in
pursuit of our race ever since Adam
and Eve reigned their innocence as well
as the worlds health. 1t is amazing
lhOW nnrC1CfQnf on1 roo{h4l,a AL4-- H.
lorders are in their attack on the world
ana how regular is the harvest which
with the Sharp scythe of pain they
moW down for the grave. No such dis
Iclplined and army ever
marched as the army of physical suf-
Efer1ng. They do their work in the or
der l name, and you may depend upon
their keeping on in that same order for
Ia good while yet; first of all tubercu-
llosls, next organic heart disease, next
pneumonia, next in number Of it's vic
Tins is apoplexy, next Bright's disease,
next cancer, next typhoid fever, next
paralysis. Those eight diseases are the
worst despoilers Of human life. The
doctors with solutions and lancets and
Ianodynes and ~cataplasms are in q. brave
night against these physiological devils
lthat try to r ossesS the human race. But
after all the scientists can do there is
IA demand for patience. Nothing can
leohC Tie place OF tndt. 1t Is needed
this homer in every sickroom and
along the streets n in business places
and shops where breadwinners are
compelled to toll when physically in
lcompetent. to move pen or calculate
"a column of figures or control a shovel.
but every pastor could show you in
stances of complete happiness under
physical suffering. He could take you
ITO that garrett or to hat hospital or to
some room in his parish where sits-in
rocking chair or lies upon a pillow some
Ione who has not seen a well day in
ten years n yet has never been
heard to utter a word Of complaint.
The grace of God has triumphed in her
soul as 1t triumphs in the soul Of
Ione who is vigorous and athletic.
That grace helped the soldier during
the American civil war. His arm had
been amputated. and he said to a dele
gate TO the Christian commission: ct
seems to me I cannot be grateful
Ienough for losing my arm. Tt made
Ime thoughtful and opened the way for
your delegates to visit me-" This grace
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