The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-06-14

quiet and to attend to business. The
same principles apply in our day to
religious fanaticism, sometimes IN
connection with the second coming OF
the Lord to whom the appeal has come
to be quiet and to attend to business.
The principle appeals as we'll to the
lower spheres of life. The kale1do-
scope of scientific, business and po-
litical life is turning very rapidly and
we do not know at what moment
some social or political proposition
will be made that Is shock to our
commonly received traditions. Parties
are disrupted, new parties are formed,
and the body polite becomes almost
a mob. In these days, therefore, not
only the religious person, but the c1tl-
zen as well, needs to study to be
quiet. This Is the more important as
the world is growing less SO rapidly
through the agencies Of steam and
electricity and phobias of all kinds are
cast before US.
QuIetness an Aid to Efficiency.
Agitation, or unrest, interferes with
efficiency, and efficiency is the key
word of the day in which we live. A
man of today does not ask for the,
blusterer, he asks for the man that
can do his work, and with the least
buster. The nervous marksman rare
ly hits the 'bullseye. You do not care
to go under the knife Of surgeon who
does not have steady hand. Hysteria
explains much of the abuse OF the sec
ond-coming OF the Lord. Men, not
studying to be quiet, nor going about
their business, become lawless, and
ALLEVIATE many sincere believers in this
great scriptural doctrine. 1t has been
illustrated over and over again, that
the man who Is quiet is as rule the
powerful man. The quiet Grant seems
to be the only Union general to make
Appomattox possible, and In great
business interests ofttimes the man
who sits and listens to the heated dis
cussions of his associates, and at the
end quietly speaks few words, car
ries the day. AS yet the strength OF
man is often found in standing still.
The painter depicts on the face OF
restless people the unmistakable fact
of an inward unhappiness, and on the
quiet face clearly intimates an inward
Joy.
More and more are men studying
Jesus Christ to get proper ideals, and
here is a good place for such study.
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becoming agitated. The most that can
be said Is that he was sometimes In
'dignant. In his early test with the
devil he quietly quoted Scripture and
presented logical arguments; on the
sea with the storm threatening to
send the boat to the bottom he ex-
hibited the power of quiet majesty;
with the mob rushing on him in the
garden he quietly says that he is the
one they are seeking; on the cross
he prays for his crucif1ers and talks
to John about his mother; and at the
very end what quietness is in the
words, Father, into thy hands I COM
mend my spirit"
The Will Must Act.
A mans intellect sometimes car
ries him far asea on its tossing bill
lows, and he puts his hand to the
rudder, which this text suggests, is
study. A mans heart or emotions may
carry him far, and he again resorts
to study. But now his will must act.
The Thessalonian Christians were ex-
cited as to the coming of the Lord.
but they ought to be quiet and as far
as any faculty that they possessed
was concerned, they were compelled
to call upon 1t to act, and that faculty
was the will. To be quiet requires ef-
fort Just as in the time OF sorest be-
reavement when We are disconsolate,
and some friend says: You must con-
troll yourself; you must make an eff
fort" Solomon tells US that the man
who rules his spirit is better than he
who takes city. Storms will over
take us, but at all hazards we must
try to be quiet and await the issue.
II men will not meet this Injunction as
1t comes from religious teachers, they
may have to meet 1t as it comes from
some awful disaster as that which re-
Gently overlook the great ocean steam
er, the Titanic The same was true at
st. Pierre, at Messina. and in the
earthquake on the Pacific coast a few
years ago At such times men stop
and say: Maybe there is a God. any
way. We are going to study these
things" How fortunate Is the man
who has learned to trust God. and
when something meets him suddenly
with upsetting quickness and form, he
can calmly say: Give me quietness.
teach me thy will l believe all will
be Welt"
Troubles spring from idleness, and
grievous tolls from needless ease;
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