The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-01-28
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
An ELOQUENT Discourse BY THE
REV. Or. }. BACON SHAW.

An Interesting Lesson Drawn From the
Text L" Run With Patience ''-heep
Jesus as Pattern Before You in the
Race of Life.
PRINCETON, n. J.-The Rev. DR.. John
Balcom Shaw, pastor OF the West Enc
Presbyterian Church. Manhattan, preachea
Sunday morning before the students OF
Princeton University He took ms Sc ,eS5 !,
DR.. Shaw said: -
There is vast difference between walk
ing with patience and running with pa
tience. Both are hard, incaiculably hard.
but thew are hard in very different ways,
and cali for sraces which are exact OPP
posites. Walking. with patience re-
quires the grace Of repression, or resis-
nation. The spirit leaps ahead but the
body must needs lag behind. we want
to run. but we have to walk, and Sow
mace when one feels he might NAL kc
haste and ought to make haste Is might
lily aggravating: :,
Young mans struggles. He wants to get
ON and I'D, with quick speed. but cir
cunstances are holding him back. He has
a mother to support, he works Tor an un-
appreciative firm, he lacks the proper m
fuence, he has no friends at court, ne
can command no capital. Therefore, ne
must stay clerk when he deserves the
superintendencv. He must go to business
when he would prefer profession. Creep
ing when yoa are eager to be leaping-
can YOU imagine a greater tax upon pa
thence than that?
Walking with patience is poverty's prob
lem. To suffer want when others TO more
deserving than you are in afhuence, and be
- ie &bo hardest nNSSlNla
TASK. That is the bottom cause of all
our labor neutrality-suspicious. under hm-
itations. ;,
Walking with patience is misfortune 5
mission. To be held back by. reverses, dis
abled by sickness, retarded by clrcun1-
stances, fel,ed by great sorrow. so that
we must walk instead OF run-these ere
among the most difficult experiences, OF
life, and are these not experiences that
porous and fortunate, those whose track
has the fewest up grades upon lt-even
the young college man with his own Pc
culiar problems to solve and struggle to
meet-who of US does not find frequent
need to cry out with face turned upward:
1 want the love that all things sweetly
bear,
Whate'er my Fathers hand may choose
to send. :.
/ want the love that patiently endures
The wrongs that come from earthly zoe
or friend.
Some great soul who had evidently
taken a full course in the school CT sui
fering and won the full diplom;. Of res
ignation, has most aptiy and beautifully
expressed the souls need under such co..
ditions in these words:
The night is dark, but God, my God,
Is here and in command;
And sure am !, when morning breaks,
I shall be at the land.
And since I know the darkness ls
10 Him as sunnlest day,
I'll cast the anchoI-patlence-ou
And wish-but wait for day:
Sod help US to learn how to walk with
But what about running with patience:
Does it not call for quite another school,
ing of ourselves, just as running on the
athletic fed demands training peculiar
to itself? Even fast walker Is not nee
essarily a good runner. The requirement.
In this case is active rather than negative.
Here is needed not the grace or repression,
as Il the other case, but OF cultivation,
. of application or concentration rather than
of resignation. In walking with patience,
the weights and the brakes both must be
applied In order to ho.d the spirit back and
keep it apace with the BODY. But to run
with patience. the weights need to be laid
aside and the brakes removed that the m
ner may keep abreast with the outward
NAV fly forward toward the goal, nor,
as the line of the o.d hymn runs, tire
amid the heavenly road :. :.
The very pace of the runner is ltseif
the foe OF patience. 1t calls, seemingly,
fos impetuousity, and the more impetu-
Gus the runner, we are accustomed to think,
the better. Its certain effect is to heat the
blood and fire the nerves. Behold the
athlete with every muscle taught, every
line of his face hard set, his eye intense
and e.. .er, tie appiauding crowd urging
him oa!> Fow can he be polse1ui and
seif-controlled? Indeed, patience, would
seem impossible, and impatlence the very
price of the prize. And yet every ath-
!fetic man before me knows this IS the talk
of novice. If there is anything the run
ner needs It Is self-controi, to be abe
.'to keep his head,', as We say to con-, n,
in check at the first and let it out towar';
the finish, to keep from being unaerred
by the shouts of the crowd, to be equal to
any unforeseen turn the race may take OF
any condition before uRreckoned with that
might appear. And does 1t not always
turn out that running match Is at bot
tom chiefly a question of selt-command-
muscle, wind, nerve, mind, yes, and heart
and the winner ever found to be the one
who has run the race with the greatest
patience?
Young men, this is a running age, and a
country where, whether you Will or no.,
you must adopt the quickest pace. Step
lively" the car conductors inelegant com
rnand. is Enthusiastically American,
though it may usually happen in this case
to be spoken by foreigner. All Ameri-
cans are proverbiaGy in a hurry. Even our
kindergarten tots have caught the step.
aud from childhood On it gets gradually
faster and faster. until, when young man
reaches maturity, he is on dead run.
Life these days is veritab.e rush for ex-
istence.
To run, then is an easy thing-it S the
most natural thing in the world d to US. we
have been bred to i; it IS instinct, but TO
run with patience, to keep the soul calm
when the body becomes heated and over
taxed, so that the spiritual does not Iag
behind the material lie. and we grow fe-
verish, sordid, i1npetuous.-ah! this is quite
another thing. Such a difficult task is 1t
that, amid the ciamor and tamult of our
modern life, it is the rarest thing to ind