Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-14

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 with God - and this man called on his soul to wait upon God.
 The psalmist recognized within him. self something to which many are very indifferent-a soul that related him to God, and differentiated him rom the brute creation. Whether that which he recognized was in itself immortal or only contained the pos sibility of immortality need not inter- est us now but it was another self, an alter ego. what some might call the subliminal self, and which has in those who have lived life of pur- poseful sin, been stifed, and yet cries out constantly for recognition, and nourishment, and ultimate perfection.
 It is not the imhecile who thinks of his soul, but it is the man who recog- nizes his true humanity, if you please; as in this case, oftentimes the man of affairs. of parts, of high ambitions. And this man is frequently quite out of patience with those who profess to be physicians of the soul and yet prescribe little or nothing that bene- l fits the soul.
 Great statesmen, financiers, railroad nlagnates, iil', entors, artists. manu- facturers, etc, when they go to church, want soul food, something to which the soul responds. A leading lawyer recently said with reference to the message that should be given from the pulpit: '.It should come fr51r God, and should relate to the Inner life, 1t should be food for the soul"
 The call was not to something in- definite: Wait thou only upon God" Here is the recognition of the cor relative to the soul, the spiritual God. l This recognition was not of an ab- stract idea, but of personality-it gave no opportunity for quibbling and doubting. There was no suggestion in any little eff" This man of affairs and great parts was not the only his torical character who has thus thought and acted. Some men may be like Job and ask where they may find God, but many others have had direct and constant intercourse with the spiritual God they have seen him who is invisible.
 dz.Cans this not be said of our three martyr presidents? ;, of Gladstone, of Bismarck. sof William of, Germany. of Justice Harlan? And as we glance back over 4sthei. past do we not have Chinese Gordon. .Stonewall Jackson, Oliver Cromwell. Gustavus Ado:phus, Savonarola, Paul. David, Moses, Abra; ham and a host. of others? Granting that these men waited on God, for so they all professed, their achievements are not an enigma.
 What is it to wait on God? Is it not keeping silence before him? "Let all the earth keep silence before him." And such silence before God is an es- sential element of prayer, One has recently said that prayer is not the GlalMiag hearing it is giving a hear. ing: it is not speaking to God, ii is listening to- God. It Is true that '.Whatever Is best for me. my God will :. u bring to me,
 If do only walt. and trust. and pray. Whater seems dark to me. shall end in light for me-
 'Tis but the gloaming. which fore-runs s5 the day"
 This, waiting before God, too sug- gestS a readiness tc respond to the call Of God as the old retainefs woald respond to the call of their iieGe lords. And was there ever a period of the history of the race when the likelihood oS e4 call was as greats The world Is open to men spirit.ftlled t. go to the thousand million human beings who as yet do not know the true God.
 Another suggestion is that of tarry- ing. How impatient We are! A man must make his first millions in ten years of business. Ten more millions must be made in the next five years. Who now tolls for the slow increase on an investment. except the man who lacks the speed of action of to- day's trading? And this Is largely true or chrlstiah "oih-"e wHi not work to the limit and be patient as long. as the fruits do not fall into our laps in great quantities. And how imuatient we are in trial! We will not wait until God gets through his nrocess of realizing for us our best until the purifying fire has burned away cur dross. And this waiticg or God would not be honoring to him un' less our waiting was with confident expectation. The soul of David would never have received blessing if he had waited before God indulging e perhaps.