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Show "JluShoo of Patience. My dear boy, If a mau can only cultivate patience aud strength, it seems to me he will buagood neighbor, neigh-bor, a pleasant man to do business with, a safe mm to trust, and the kind of a man tlie world loves, even though ho lack wisdom, aud hath no genius and can't tell a good story sto-ry or sing a note. How much docs fretful, restless, hurrying old world owe to the patient pa-tient man, who finds his strength 'Irj quietness an J confidence," who can be patient with our faults, our fancies, our wietedric-s; who ran be quiet when the toftcsi word would have a sting; who can wait for storms to blow over and for wrongs to right them-elvrs; who can patiently and silently endure a slight until he lias forgotten it and who can even be patient with himself? That's the fellow, my boy, who tries my j,a-tience j,a-tience and strength more than any man eJ- with w honi I have had to deal. I could get along with the rest of the work pell enough If he were only out of it. I can meet all my other cares and enemies bravely and cheerfully enough. Hut when myself comes to me, with his heart-ajhesand heart-ajhesand blunders and stumbling!, with his -own follies and troubles and sins, somehow he takes all the tuck out of me. My strength is weakness and my patience is folly when I come to deal with him. He tnes rue. He is such a fx!. He makes the same supid blunders in the sinie stupid way so many times. Sometimes when r think I musl put up with him and his ways all my life, I want to give up. And then the next time he comes lo me with his cares and the same old troubles, he seems so helpless and pentient that I feel sorry for him, and try to be patient with him, and promise to help dim all I can once more. Ah, my dear boy, as yea grow older, that Is tho fellow w ho will try you and torment you, and draw on your sympathy, and tax your patience and strength. He patient with him, poor old fellow, because I think he does love you, and yet, as a rule, you are harder on him than anyone else. fiurdetU. |