The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-06-21
THE FARMER AND MECHANIC

night. They have a detailed program
for making over the human race, ana
thew want it all put into operation
at once. They overlook the many
thousands of years during which man
has been on the upgrade. Their motto
is DO it now" They would legis-
late the bic Adam out of human ma
ture. In this they resemble the fuSsy
servants of the householder in the
parable.
But God has more patience. He
knows how to wait. There are few
more interesting studies in the field
of theology than the patience OF God.
Why has he waited SO long and en-
dured so much? Why has he let
let nan come to his present estate,
which is none too high, by slow de-
grees? Why not enact a state of
society wherein all men would be as
the angels? Somehow we know that
it belongs to the God nature to be
strong and to be patient A child
wants what he wants when he wants
it. A mature person can wait and
work through the years for a coveted
prize. Said a father in self-consola-
ton, having in MIND his own wander
ing, son: Train up a child in the way
he should go, and when he is old he
will not depart from it-when he is
young he may wander. but he will
SOAAA1 c1ch z IN 10 ~
He that believeth shall not make
haste 1t is a part Of ripenesS of
to take the years into con-
sideraticn. Young people wonder that
political managers should be planning
two and three years ahead for a pres
idential campaign. Already the news
papers of the United States are full Of
conjecture concerning the candidate
for 1912. The long look is the mark
of the big and the wise. Harvest is
coming some day. That is the COM
fort Of all who seek the worlds veal.
The grain is bound for the garner and
the tares for the fire. Ne tares know
of the harvest. SO what is the use Of
worrying about hypocrites in the
church?
The Proof at the End.
G~aunt-visaged reformers in their
zeal try to remedy age-long ills over
night The sad fact about reform
movements is that they usually have
to be done all owe again. Not tina
such effort has not a place in life; but
1t IS not the normal place. The Sun
day school way is the better way: keep
on cuitivating the wheat; don't worry
about the tares; they are Gods bust
ness. Seek the good and do not fret
oyermuch about the bad. A construc-
tive program Of life and labor has the
support Of this parable, and of all the
accum ulated wisdom of the race. 1t is
better for a person to express his pow
ers positively. as by teaching a Sum
day school class that lasts through the
years, rather than to spend himself
in hypOcritical denunciations Of evil.
The end proves all. 1t is rather un-
fashionable in these days to talk about
the conclusion of the whole matter.
Our d cocksure state Of mind,
which conveniently forgets its wild
guPSSfS about tha Onet'c fail ma Tho
million lesser matters, is certain that
all the questions Of eternity are setti2i
here on his little sphere called tne
earth. A few question this self-confi-
dent attitude. The older faith Of a
judgment day when accounts are even
~ balanced is surely more reasonable. |
as the parable points out Kipling is
reported to have said one time:
There is surely Somebody somewhere
gives us our licks some time"
The Inevitable Reaping.
The field of the wheat and the
darnel points Onward to the inevitable
harvest. The grain cannot escape the
garner. None Of Gods own fall out Of
his hand. And the tares cannot es-
cape destruction. There may be hypo-
critics in the church. but there are
in Heaven. The old, old struggle
between the c~ontending, forces Of light
and darkness on this earth is going
TO be ended some day. Then there
will be no doubt as to which side one
Is on.
In the terrific picture painted by the
Master himself it is set forth that che
Son Of man shall send forth His
angels n they shall gather out Of
His Kingdom all things that cause
STUN bling and they that do iniquity.
and shall cast them into the furnace
Of fire: there shall be weeping and
watling and gnashing of teeth. Then
Sn all the righteous Shfna forth q . fho
sun in the kingd ON Of their Father.
He that has ears to hear, let him