The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-02-16

Inc pSaIm1St recognized within nln-
self something to which many are
very indifferent-a soul that related
him to God, and differentiated him
from 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 stifled. and yet cries
out constantly for recognition. and
nourishment. and ultimate perfection.
1t is not the imbecile who thinks Of
his soul, but 1t is the man who recog
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 bene-
fits the soul
Great statesmen, 1nanciers, railroad
magnates, inventors, artists. manu-
facturers, ETC.. when they go to
church, want soul food, something to
which the soul responds leading
lawyer recently said with reference to
the message that should be given
from the pulpit: "It should come from
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.
This recognition was not of an alb
stract idea, but of personaI1ty-it
gave no opportunity for quibbling and
doubling. 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.
Can this not be said of our three
martyr presidents? Of Gladstone, OF
Bismarck. of William of Germany, of
Justice Harlan? And a., we glance
back over the past do we not have
Chinese Gordon, Stonewall Jackson.
Oliver Cromwell. Gustav is Adolphus
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 1t 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-
sentia element of prayer. One has
recently said that prayer is not the
claiming hearing. it is giving hear
ing: it is not speaking to God. It Is
listening to God. 1t is true that
bring to me.
If do only wait, and trust and pray
What'er seems dark to me, shall end in
light for me;
IT'S but the cleaning. which fore-runs
the day
This waiting before Geo. too, sug-
gests readiness tc respond to the
call of God as the old retainers would
respond to the call of their liege
lords. And was there ever a period
of the history of the race when the
likelihood Of call was as great? The
world is open to men spirit-filled to 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 ire. man
must make his first mil lions 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. |
days trading? And this Is largely |
true OF christian work-we will not |
work to the limit and be patient rs |
long as the fruits do not fall into our
laps in great quantities. And how
we are in trial! We will |
not wait until God gets through his
process Of realizing for us our best |
until the purifying fire has burned |
away our dross. And this waiting on
God would not be honoring to him IN
less our waiting was with confident
The soul of David would
never have received blessing if he |
had waited before God indulging
perhaps
And this naturally brings us to the
last thought or the text-the argu
ment employed. Why did David call
on his soul to wait on God? Because
his expectation was from him. That
Just then holding out his hands to
receive an anticipated blessing. but
hat in his past experience his expec-
-ation had always been realized He
had proved God. And this expecta-
ion had not always been with refer
ance to things religious or spiritual
men seem to be willing to
in way, that God Is the
source of spiritual blessings, bu. rule
lin out of the balance of their lives.
If we had more men in the pulpits
IF the Methodist church who would
get out on the baseball bleachers once
n a while and do a little jaw exer-
Using we would have more men in
he church. The church today wants
zig, strong, brawny men in the pull
pits. The time has come when men.
lou women. should support the church.
Bishop w. A. Quayle. Episcopalian.
Mich.
The man who can trust the Lord
when there is no bloom on the fig