The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-01-20
run WITH PATIENCE
A Brilliant Sunday Sermon By Rev. DR..
J. Bsscom Shaw.
Keep Jesus a. q Pattern Before You 10 the
Race Of Life.


Princeton University. He took his text
from Hebrews kill; Run with patience .
DR.. Shaw said:
There lie vast difference between walk
ing with patience and running with pa
tience. Both are hard, incalculably hard
but they are hard in very different ways
and call for graces which are exact op
posites. Walking with patience re-
quires the grace of repression or resg
nation The spirit, leaps ahead but the
to run, but we have to walk, and a slow
pace when one feels he might make
haste and ought TO make haste is might.
ily agqravating,
Walking with patience is one of the
young mans struggles. He wants to get
on and up, with quick speed, but cir.
cumstances are holding him back. He has
a mother 20 support, he forks for an un.
appreciative firm, he lacks the proper in.
fuence, he has no friends at court he
can command no capital. Therefore, he
must stay clerk when he deserves the
superintendent He must go to business
when he would prefer profession. Creep.
ing when you are eager to be leapng--
can you imagine greater tax upon pa.
tience than that?
Walking with patience is poverty's prob.
lem. To suffer want when others no more
deserving than you are in affluence, and be
resigned to it, it is the hardest possible
task. That is the bottom caiise of all
our labor agitation-impatience under lin.
itations.
Walking with patience is misfortune 8
mission. To be held back by reverses, dis
abled by sickness, retarded by circum.
stances, felled by great sorrow, so that
we must walk instead of run--these are
among the most difficult experiences of
life, and are these not experiences that
come to all? Who OF us, the most pros.
porous and fortr2ate, those whose track
has the fewest up grades upon it-even
the young. college man with his own pc.
culiar problems to solve and struggle to
meet-who of us docs not find frequent
need to cry out with face turned upward !!
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 foe
or friend.
Some great soul who had evidently
taken full course in the school of suf.
fering and won the full diploma of res.
ignation, has most aptiy and beautifully
expressed the souls need under such con.
ditions in these words;
The night is dark, but God, my God,
Is here and in command;
And sure am ], when morning breaks,
l shall be at the land.
And since l know the darkness is
10 MIN ds SunIileSC Qay,
I'll cast the anchor-patience-out
And wish-but wait for day.
God help us to learn how to walk with
patience!
But what about running with patience!
Does it not call for quite another School
ing. OF ourselves, just as running on the
athletic field demands training peculiar
to itself? Even a fast walker is not nee
essarily good runner. The requirement
in this case is active rather than negative
Here is needed not the grace of repression,
rs 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 hold 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 in
ner may keep abreast with the outward
that our ambitions, our hopes, cur aims
as the line of the old hymn runs, "tire
amid the heavenly road"
The very pace Of the runner is itself
the foe of patience. 1t calls, seemingly
for 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 eayer, the applanding crowd urging
him on! How can, he be poiseful and
self-controlled? Indeed, patience. would
seem impossible. and impatience the very
price of the prize. And yet every ath'
letic man before me knows this is the talk
of a novice. If there is anything the run
ner needs it is self-control, to be able
snd s0 dhefP his bead as hOS We say ,se to com
in check at the. first and let it out toward
the finish, to keep from being unnerved
by the shouts of the crowd, to be equal te
any unforeseen turn the race may take OF
any condition before unreckoned with that
might appear. And does it not always
turn out that running match is at bot
tom chiefly a question of self-command-
muscle, wind nerve, mind, yes, and heart
and the winner ever found to be the one
who has run the raec with the greatest
patience!
Young men, this is a RAINING age, and
country where, whether you will or not:
ysu must adopt the quickest pace. "Ster
lively" the car c0nductor's inelegant com
mand, is Enthusiastically American.
though it may usually happen in this case
sans sa Sc ars % IN Rarry Even eu
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
Life these days is a veritable rush for ex
istence.
To run, then is an easy thing-it Is the
most natural thing in the world to us. we
have been bred to 1T; 1T is instinct, but tc
run with patience, to keep the soul calm
when the body becomes heated and over
taxed, SO that the spiritual does not lag
behind the material life. and we grow fe
verish, sordid, impetuous-ah! this is quite
anocher thing. Such a difficult task is il
that, amid the camor and tumult Of our
modern life, it is the rarest thing to find
men with tranquil temperaments, stead
fast, patient, reposeful. Under the strain
and pressure OF the times we get irasciblel
restless, nervous, narrow and shallow OF
soul. Solitude has no longer any congo
niality for us, and, as DIR. Samuel johnson
declared years ago, when man cannot
bear his own company, does not like to be
alone, there is something wrong" At
would seem as If Wordsworth were ar
raigning our age and not his own, which
pared with this, when he wrote down his
memorable lines:
"The world is too much with us; late and
Getting and spending, we lay waste our
powers.
Little we see in nature that is our;
We have given our hearts away, a sordie
boon!"
Aversive to solitude, and over-enamoreo
of society, hard driven by materialstic
gain and greed, tearing ahead for a prize
that our nervous clutch may crush 90 soon
as it is once in the hand, we outrun our re-
ligious duty, the claims OF our inner nature
are left away behind, and we go dashing
madly ahead, like a runaway engine, into
spiritual, II not moral, ruin. This, young
men, is the feverish race you are soon to
enter. Whatever your disinclination there.
co. you are bound to run it. The one su.