News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1912-05-08


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
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 stifed, and yet cries
out constantly for recognition, and
nourishment, and ultimate perfection.
1t is not the imbecile who thinks Of
his soul, but it is the man who recog
nizes his true humanity, If you please;
rs 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 tie soul.
Great statesmen, financiers, railroad
magnates, inventors, artists, manu-.
lecturers, etc, when they go to
church, want soul food, something to
which the soul responds. A leading
,awyer 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 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 a personality-it
gave no opportunity for clubbing and
doubling. There was no suggestion in
any little 'if." This man of affairs
and great parts was not the only his
'Orical character who has thus thought
and acted. Some men may be like
lob 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 as we glance
back over the past do we not have
Chinese Gordon, Stonewall Jackson,
oliver Cromwell Gustavus Adolphus, |
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 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
sential element of prayer. One has
recently said that prayer is not the
claiming hearing, it is giving hear
ng; it is not speaking to God, it is
listening to God. 1t is true that
Whatever is best for me, my God will
bring to me,
If I 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 God, too, sug
rests a readiness to respond to the
all of God as the old retainers would
espond to the call of their liege
ords. And was there ever a period
# the history of the race when the
likelihood of call was as great? The
world is open to men spirit-filled to go
o the thousand million human beings
Who as yet do not know the true
iod
Another suggestion is that of tarry-
ng. How impatient we are! A man
aust make his first millions in ten
ears of business. Ten more millions
lust be made in the next five years.
Who now tolls for the slow increase
n an investment, except the man
Tho lacks the speed of action of to-
avs trading? And this is largely
rue of christian work-we will not
-ork to the limit and be patient as
ing as the fruits do not fall into our
lps in great quantities. And how
Inpatient we are in trial. We will
OF wait until God gets through his
recess of realizing for us our best,
ntil the purifying fire has burned .
way our dross. And this waiting on
cd would not be honoring to him I'M
IS our waiting was with confident
ypectation. The soul of David would
ever have received a blessing if he
id waited before God INDUCING a I
srhaDs.