Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-01-23
Run WITH PATIENCE :"
A Brilliant Sunday Sermon By Rev. DR..
J. Bascom Shaw.
ksse Jesus - Pattern Before Yea In the
Race Of Lie.

tff' eSNdfntS VI
Princeton University. He took has text
Ut, shaw said:
mere Is vast difference between walk
,ng with patience and running with pa.
.'ence. Both are hard. intellectually hard,
ond lhty are hard IN very different ways
anu CAL Tor graces which are exact op-
posites- Walking with patience re-
quires the grace q repression or reslg-
nation ne spirit leaps ahead hut the
pouy must needs Ia oehind We want
run, pnt We nave 10 walk, ana SOW
pa, mnsh one IeeIs he might make
nasiS anu "nght 20 make haste IS might
ny ags awaiting;
vou, "N MIN "' .',,. na,.S'GI : ore o. ea "a,
sou"s M -, NC ANTS 70 se'
on ana ~; w'.h "ni' sped; hg, CIR.
eunS. .s 81 4 ".h :.~ek. hc naH
motne. TO sns''', a. N"rSS Tor an un-
aappIee'a'Nc "''h NO.. 'ie proper ~,
nue"ce, he "a u a. - court nc
.a,,s, sEs~ 80. 49,, b.. Is.er,,., ,he
s,ner;ntsn6s,c, 10 mrs, s., 70 bns;ness
,.hsn ia r.o,,,a ,,-s,e,. :, ,,,.,7|.s,a, s,r"s,,.
;ny whe, yom are caoe, ~ he le,nlncr
- 80, ,,,a,,;n, /, -,s,,i,,. - 80, =,
s;a,os shan ,hats ' !"
Walkin- with natiencc Is noverty's prob.
lem. To suffer want vixen others no more
deserving than Won are in atIiurnce and he
resigned To IL. il Is the hardest possihle
task That i the bottom cause al all
our labor agitation ;npaticnce under nm
itations.
Walking with ratiencc is misfortune's
mission. To be held hack by reverses. dis
abled by sickness, retarded by cIrcum-
stances. felled by great sorrow. SO that
we must walk instead OF im-these are
among the most difficult experiences OF
life, and are these nPt experiences that
come 10 all? Who of Us, the most pros
porous and iorts-1te. those whose track
has the feweSt nm grades upon It-even
the young college man with his own pc
culiar problems II solve and struggle to
meet-who of us does not ind frequent
need TO cry out with face turned upward:
1 want the love that alb things sweetiy
hear
Whate'er INV Fathers aani may choose
IN send
want III. love taat PATIENTLY endures
The wrongs that come from earthly toe
ar friend
G -, -. IL -o-;1----TT,.
Sohe IN 81 WI n'L h'I ~ 80
tta f: d 'u', e""' ~ t"S ,;'sIn,'s ~ uS
ien.s anu ""n t"E u, u,piIN'h,~ - II
ass..,asaa -. a,.i. - ID ~, ~ :.
i:.;... IL. -
u'a"s ="
Inc nisht Is dafS' ont Soa' III. ''od'
Is mere ana IN command
and sure am !, when morning breaks
! shall be at the hnd.
a. And u since l kinw me uarhness
10 him as suhniest DAY,
III cast the chor--patience--ons'
Ana wish-oai wait Tor Gay.
God. help Us 10 learn how 10 walk with
patience,
But what about running with patience:
Does it not cali for quite another school
ing of ourselves, Just as running on the
athletic field demands a training peculiar
TO itself: Even a fast walker Is not neg
essarily a good runner. The requirement
in this case is active rather than negative
Here is needed not the grace of repression,
as ia the other ease. but OF cultivation.
OF application or concentration rather than
OF resignation. In walking with patience
the weights and the bra hes both must be
applied in order to hold the spirit back aud
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
that our ambitions, our hopes, cur aims
may ny forward toward the goal, nor.
as the line OF the old hymn runs, are
amid the heavenly road
The very pace OF the runner is itsell
the foe OF patience. 1t calls. seemingly.
fer 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
hne oil his face hard set, his eye intense
and ed ,er the appiauding crowd urging
him oni How can he be poiseful and
seif-controlleds Indeed, patience would
seem impossible, and impotence the very
price of the prize. And yet every ath
letic man before me knows this is the talk
OF a novice. Ii there is anything the run
ner needs il Is self-control to be able
ito keen his head" as we say, to com
mand his nerves, to hold lis strength
in check at the first and le. IL out toward
the finish, to keen rom being unnerye ed
any unforeseen turn the race NAV take OF
might appear. And does IL not AWAY.
turn ont that running match il at bot
tom chiefly a question OF self-command-
muscle. wind. nerve. mind. YES. and heart
and the winner ever found To be the ON,
who has run the racr with the greatest
natience,
Vomng rnen tb;s i \ rA,p;n, 500 and 4,
conntrv where whether Won wifi or not
Won must adont the onicEest mace ..Ster
lively " The car condnc,or's ;neiacant com
though it may usually happen in tins case
to be spoken by foreigner All Amer
cans are proverbially in hurry. Even our
kindergarten tots have caught the step
and from childhood on it gets gradually
faster and faster, until. when ! Young man
reaches maturity, he Is on dead run
Lite these days IS veritaole rush Tor ex
istence.
10 run, then IS an easy thng-lt IS the
most natural thing IN the world TO us. we
have been bred 10 1t; u IS instinct, but &c
run with patience, TO Keep she soul calm
M aaA I'D aN