Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-01-21
"RUN WITH PATIENCE !"
A Brilliant Sunday Sermon By Kew. Dr.
j. Bascom Shaw.
Keep Jesus as Pattern Before Yos Ia inc
Race Of Life.

PRINCETON, ". - nv 49,
p.,oom Shaw. pastor of the West End
PRESBYTERIAN Church. Manhattan, preached
Sunday morning before the students OF
Princeton University. He took his TEX.
from Hebrews Kill: Run with patience.
Or Shaw said; iii
There il a vast difference between walk
ing With patience and runhny with pa
tiencc. Both are hard, hca!cri'apy natu'
but they are hard in very different ways
and chi for graces which are exact or
nostes. Walking with patience re-,
nnres the grace of repression or resigt
nation. TIE spirt leaps ahead but the
hoSv must needs lag behind. We want,
To- run. but we have to walk. and Sow
mace when ore feels he might make
haste and ought to make haste Is might
Iy aggravating, e ..o
vounr mans struggles. He wants to get
on and up, with quick speed. but cir
cnmstanccs are holding him back. lie has
a mother TO support, he FORKS for an I'M
appreciative firm he lacks the proper in
nt,ence, be has 10 friends at court, ne
can command no capital. therefore. ne
must stay Clerk when Inc deserves tue
superintendency. he m"sS 80 70 business
when he would prefer profession creep
;nr when YOU are eager To- he Ieaping-
c,n Won imagine grebter tax upon pa
thence than that:
Walking with patience is poverty = prob
lon, To suffer want when others no more
Deserving than YOU are in affluence, @nd bs'
resigned to it, u is the hardest posssoic
task That is the bottom cause OF all
our labor neutrality-suspicious. under Inn
itations.
Walking with patience IL misfortune
mission 10 be held hack bv reverses. dis
ahIed bv sickness. retarded by eircum'
stances. feiied by great sorrow q" thar
we must wall: instead OF run-thess are
among the most d,E'icn,t experiences OF
life, and arc these not experiences that
come to all? Who OF us, the most pros.
has the fewest IN grades upon 1t-eVen
the Young college man with hIs own pc
cu,i,r pr5b,ems to solve and struggle to
meea who Of us does not find frequent
ree3 to cry out with face turned upWard!'
| want the love that al things sweetly
bear,
Wha.e'er my Fathers hand may choose
to send
7 want the love that patiently endures
The wrongs tina. come from earthly Zoe
or friend,
Some great soul who had evidently
taken tull course III the school OF SUI
fermg and Won the iull dpiom& OF res.
,ynation has most aptiy and htauGiu'iy
ditions in these words;
The night is dark, hut God. NJ" Tod,
Is here and IN command;
And sure am |, wheu morning breaks,
| shall be at the land.
And since | know the darkness il -;
10 Him as Sunnlest day,
I'll cast the anchor-pat ience-out,
And wlsh--nut wait for day. $1,000
God helm us to learn how TO walk with
patience!
But what about running with patience;
Does it not cal Tor quite another scnon'
iur of ourselves, lust as running on he
athletic field demands Il training peculiar
TO itself? Even a last walker Is not nee
cssarily a good runner The requirement
in tins case Is aCIlve rather than negative
Here is needed not the grace of repression,
as l., the other case, but OF cultivation,
Oh application or concentration rather than
OF resignation. In walking with patencer
the weights and the brakes both must be
applied IN order 70 nod tue spirit back ana
keen it apacc with the body. But TO run
with patience. the weights need to be Iaid
aside and the brakes removed that the III
ner may keep abreast with the outward.
that orr ambltIonss our hopes. cur aims.
may fly forward toward the goa, nor"
rs the Inc OF the cd hymn iuns, "tlre
amid the heavenly road
The very pace OF tue runner Is teeh
the foe of patience. IL calls, seemingly,
ior impetuouSlty, and the more mpetn
Gus the runner. we are accustomed to think
the better. It's certain effect Is to heat the
blood and fire the nerves. Behold the
athlete with every mLscie taught, every
line of his face hard SET. his eye intense
and e. .e7, the app!auding crowd. urSliS
HIM on, How can he pe posefui and
se,i-controlled: Indeed, patience would
seem impossible, and lmpatence the very
price OF the prize. And yet every attn
ietic man before me knows this Is the talk
of a novice. If there Is anything the run
ner needs it IL self-contro, to be abs
ito keep hs head IA we say, TO com
mand his nerves, to ho,d Ii, strength
in check at the first and le. it out toward
the finish, to keep from being unnerved
bv the shouts OF the crowd, to be equal tc
any unforeseen turn the race may take or
any condition before unreckoned with thai
Uight appear. And does it not always
turn out that a running match Is at bot.
tom chiefly a question OF set'commanh-
musce wind, nerve, mind, yes, and heart
and the winner ever found to De tue on.
VINO has run the rata with the greatest
patience:
Young men, this is a RAINING age, and
country where whether you will or not.
YOU must adopt the quickest pace. ''SteI
mand is Enthusiastically American
though it may usually happen in this case
to be spoken by foreigner. All Ameri
cans are provcrbaliy in hurry. Even oui
kindergarten tots have caught the step
and from childhood on it gets gradually
faster and faster, until. when young map
reaches maturity, he is on dead run
Lie these days is verItablc rush Tor ex
istence.
10 run, then is an easy thing-it s. the
most natural thing in the world to us. we
have been bred to it; it Is instinct, but to
run with patience, TO keep the soul calm
when the body lecomes heated and over
taxed. 50 that the spiritual does not lag
behind the material lie. and we gro" te.
verish sordid, impetuous- All. this IS quite
anolher thing. Such a difficult task Is II
that. amid the clamor and tumult Of OUT
modern life, 1t Is the rarest thing to find
men vita tranquil t2mperaments, stead
fast patient, reposeful. Under the strain
and pressure of the times we get irascible,
rest less. nervous. narrow and shallow OF
soul. Solitude has no longer any congo.
niaity for us, and, as Dr. Samuel Johnson
declared years ago, when man cannot
bear his own company does not like to he
alone, there Is something wrong II
would seem as if Wordsworth were ar
raigning our are and not his own, which
was so phlegmatic and meditative. as com
nared with this. when he wrote down his
memorable lines
"Tne word is too much with lis; late and
soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our
powers.
Little we see in nature that is our;
We have given our hearts away, sol die
boom"
Ayerslve to solitude, and overenamoreo
of society, hard driven b.; mateYialistic
gain and greed, tearing ahead for a prize
that our nervous clutch may crush so soon
as it is once in the hand, we outrun our re.
Iigous duty the claims of our inner nature
are left away behind, and we go dashlng
madiy ahead, like runaway engine, into
spiritual. if not moral, ruin This, young
men, is the feverish race you are soon to
| nnter Whnteyer Nnllr Discrimination there.