Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-02-09

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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 fndffferent-a soul that related
him TO God. and differentiated him
from the brute creation Whether
that which he recognized was In ftse
immortal or only contained the pos
sibiiity of Immortality need not inter
est us now, but 1t was another self.
an alter ego, what some might call
the subliminal self. and which has Ia
those who have lived a life OF pur-
posefui sin. been stined. and yet cries
out constantly for recognition. and 1
nourishment, and ultimate perfection
1t is not the imbecile who thinks Of
his soul, but 1t 10 the man who reeog-
nizes his true humanity. II 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 beue-
fits the soul
Great statesmen, financiers. railroad
magnates. inventors, artists. mama
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: ut should come from
God, and should relate to the inner
life, it should be food for the soul"
The call was not to something I'm
definite: WAIT thou only upon God"
Here is the recognition of the cor
relative to the soul. the spiritual God
This recognition was not of an alb
stract idea, but of a persoDality-it
gave no opportunity for quibblfng and
doubling. There was no suggestion In
any little If" This man of affairs
and great parts was not the only hts
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.
Can this not be said OF our three
martyr presidents? OF Gladstone. CT
Bismarck, Of William of Germany, of
Justice Harlan? And as we glance
back over the past do we not have
Chinese Gordon, StoDewall Jackson.
Oliver Cromwell. GustaVus Adoiphus.
Savonarola, Paul, David, Moses. Abra-
ham and host OF others? Granting
that these men waited on God. for SO
they all protested, their achievements
are not an enigma
What Is IL to wait on God? Is 1t 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 net the
claiming hearing. 1t IS giving hear
ing; it is not speaking to God. Il Is
listening to God. 1t is true that
Whatever is best for me, my God wHi
bring to me.
If I do only wait. and trust. and pray
light for me:
'Tis but the cleaning. which fore-ru1s
the day
This waiting before God. to1, sug.
gests a readiness to respond to The
call OF God as the old retainers wouId
respond to the call OF their liege
lords And was there ever a period
Of the history OF the race when the
likelihood of & caIl was as greatg The
world Is open to men spirit-iilled to 60
to the thousand million human beings
who as yet do not know the true
God.
Another suggestion is that OF larry
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.
VINO now tolls for the slow increase
on an investment, except the man
who lacks the speed or action OF TO-
days trading? And this Is largely
true OF christian work--we viii not
work to the limit and be patient as
long al the fruits do not fan into our
laps IN great quantities. And how
impatient we are In trial. We win
not wait until God gets through his
process OF realizing for us our besf
until the purifying IRE has burned
away our dross. And this wattinw On
Cod would not be honoring to him un-
less our waiting was with confident
expectation. The soul OF David would
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