The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-21
HOPING ANDWAITIN
By the Rev. Newell Dwight Hills.

BY the Rev. Newell Dwight Hills.
Tcxt-It is good for man TO hope and
quietly walt Tor Tho salvation OF God.
Among tho stimuants 20 successful
work we must make q large place for
hope Man is so constituted that In tho
hour OF battle. he is supported by the
foresight OF Victory. Tho farmer ploughs
and sows in the expectancy Of a harvest
Tho mariner sets sail for a world voyage
In the anticipation of a large cargo and
n homecoming. Fear OF failure takes
the nerve out Of the arm and the
strength out OF the heart Contrariwlse,
tho hope Of success arms n man against
every enemy. Therefore, this pledge Of
God, that all good work Journeys toward
n reward and certain success. Whoever
goeth forth. bearing his seed, ehall come
again bringing his sheaves with him. for
nothing good is lost Tho message of
truth and Justice is successful message
But, be IL remembered. he who works
must also walt. God and His world Will
not be hurried Haste makes waste, and
waste IS tho forerunner OF ruin. il the
work is low work, tho worker must walt
only a little time. II the work Is OF n
high order, long time Is necessary. You
walt four weeks for q head OF lettuce,
four months for q strawberry. four years
for peach, four hundred years for an
oak. four thousand years for man In
the image of God All men, therefore,
who seek TO sow the lond with wisdom,
all parents WHO are trying TO rear noble
sons and worthy daughters, all generous
natures whose hearts are knitted I'm with
The fortunes OF their kind. must needs
remember that II is good for a man TO
work and hope and quietly walt for the
salvation of God " For your life Is not I'm
today, or it's deeds, any more than
Shoaf is In the seed. Tho grain OF corn
Is as large as your finger nail, but
million SunhcamS above converge to-
wards that grain, and million threads in
the soil converge towards that grain of
corn from below And when all that Is
in the sky above has passed through tho
grain of corn, and all that Is In the earth
beneath has been braided I'm also. then
YOU have the shock. But the farmer who
planted the seed waited for tho shock
and postponed his shouting. Victory ie
therefore In the future. The seeds were
gathered yesterday. today holds tho fur
row, but the harvest Is In tomorrow
For the child, tomorrow holds strength
wisdom honors and a troop OF friends
For the patriot. tomorrow holds the on
set against every form of Vice, and the
holds battlefield all stained with
blood and holds the overthrow OF an
enemy For dying statesman and sleep
ing mother tomorrow holds the immortal
hope. Tho cure OF today's victory Is the
courage Of tomorrow. Small men arc
saved by sight. great ones by hope. For
NIL mon, II iS good 10 work and hope and
patiently wait for the salvation Of God
Christ's Seed and the Far-OR Harvest.
Far above all other mon did Christ
work and walt and patiently hope. In the
long-ago. standing by the seashore, He
told the people that a house divided
against itself could not stand. ii was a
great word and pregnant with wisdom.
That sentence held the cure OF war. the
safeguard against civil diSScnsion. But
the seed apparently fell on poor ground.
No man regarded the warming, that "a
house divided against itself cannot
stand" on the mountain side the Swiss
guide Will not speak above a whisper.
lest the yibTa tlon OF his voice start the
avalanche that grinds village to
powder And now the centuries are
bridges. We see the Christ standing be-
side. the Sea of Galilee, and now His
words go forth, "A house divided against
itself cannot stand Down the long aisle
OF time tho words sound the whisper
deepcns into muflcd thunder. the thunder
swclls into the Cannon's roar. Then when
the sound OF battle dies away, the house
stands. but II has only one occupant