The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1907-02-14

peace. It Is, only when woman has
stood by the casket OF dear husband
that she is fully equipped to carry a
comforting message to the newly wild
owed heart. The story is told that
many years ago King Henry OF Eng
land, In disguise was arrested by the
royal guards as a thief for providing
around the palace grounds and carried
Off TO jail at Poultry Compiler. There
he stayed all the night long in his
damp cell. sbivering and hungry No
SCOOTER was the king liberated than he
commanded that all the prisoners in
Compiler should in future have a fire
and food to eat. Thus is 1t with most
of us God locks us in jail In order
that we may sympathize with the
worlds prisoners. He lays us upon
beds of sickness in order to teach us
to help the sick He exiles us in far
off indian lands in order that our
hearts of love might beat in sympathy
with the suffering hearts Of our fellow
men.
But there was still another reason
why God shut Moses up in his indian
exile. 1t was to teach the future eman-
cipator of the Hebrew race the great
lessons of patience. No man is At to
be a true leader of men unless he can
keep his temper under control and be
willing to walt. Patience Is but lying
to- once said Beecher, land riding out
the gale" But one of the hardest tasks
on earth is to be willing to lie to and
| do nothing. Thus God fitted Moses for
his great leadership over the Hebrews
| by teaching him the lessons OF pa
thence down in faroff INDIAN lands.
He made Moses just learn to wait.
One year passes, then two years, then
five years, then ten years, then TWEEN
| ty years, then thirty years and then
forty years. All this time Moses was
brooding over the injustices which
were being perpetrated upon his peo-
pie. But not until twoscore years had
passed did God say to Moses. my
son. go to Egypt and / will be with
thee. Go up, and | will make thee an
lemancipator for an enslaved race"
Oh. how some of us are chatting at the
| TACT that God is keeping us in INDIAN
something TO aid our fellow men, but
God Is saying to us as he spake to
Moses: my child, be patient. Thou
canst never be iberator Of thy fell.
low men unless thou dost first learn
to govern myself. Thou must abide
here in faroff INDIAN until thou dost
learn this truth" Tell me, my friend,
Is not the greatest obstacle retarding
thee from mighty usefulness the fact
that you have never learned to gov
ern yourself, you have never learned to
wait when it is best to wait?
Button, the great French preacher,
once said: Never think that Gods de-
lays are like Gods denials. Hold on!
Hold onl Hold onl Patience is gen
lus" Aye, patience Is more than sim
pie human genius. Gospel patience is
the acme OF gospel faith and trust. 1t
is resting our faith on Christ 1t is the
divine faith which says, Though all
things may seem to go against me for
the time being, yet God is making all
things ultimately work together for
good, and therefore we can afford to
wait, just to wait for his dear sake"
There Is an infinite lot Of Christian
! philosophy to be learned In these
quaint words of the Hoosier poet. The
more l study them the more God
speaks and teaches me the lessons of
patience which he spake to Moses in
his INDIAN exile:
It amt no use to grumble and complain;
It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice.
When God sorts out the weather and
sends rain,
wy, rains my choice.
In this existence dry and wet
VIII overtake the best Of men.
Some little stift o. cloud II shet
The sun off now and then.
There amt no sense, as can see,
Immortals SIGH as you and me
A-faultin' natures wise intents
And lockin' horns with Providence.
Thanks For the Weather.
But have most of us learned the
Christian lessons of patience? Like
James Whitcomb Riley, can we thank
God for the rain as well as the sun
shine? When things go all right, then
we are right. But when anything goes
wrong we have not learned the lessons
of gospel patience. Then we speak
words which we ought not to speak
and do things which we regret all the
days of our lives. Naturalists tell US
that the mighty winged eagles have
sometimes been slain by the little hum.
ming birds. These smallest Of birds,
which you could crush in your hand,
have been known toperch themselves
upon the heads of the mighty kings of
the air. There they have sat and peck
ed and pecked until they have pecked
into the brains of the eagles and tum-
bled their dead bodies down into the
dust Thus quick temper, the inabili-
ty to govern our anger in little things
have been known to absolutely nullify
a mans influence for good. We are
all right when everything Is going all
right. But we are all wrong when any
thing goes wrong. Thus God exiled
Moses In INDIAN to teach him patience
Thus God Is holding many OF as in OBJ
scure positions until we learn to gov