| Show lcoarcATEoJ 13tiTi U c V I In every stage ol life this feature Is quite noticeable The little Jellow I at Ito I-to lines longs to bo a min or up preach thereto lie uk when he will he five years old now Ile asks when he ullt be six and he Is looking for the Uh1 ulien lie will be oM enough to 00 baptized next he will Inquire how long I It wHl be before he en take a mission or perchance an education a trade or marriage III lie the object ul him soldtude and time will lag day and I I i J J On hours nil seem to be al II the coveted thing would never come IIrsl experience In Planting a garden constitutes nn amusing reflection Item for germina seems lortnr waiting Lion peas and potatoes become special objects of Interest and the planted tree In I long In putting forth Us leaves and still longer In blooming for the ex pecttd fruit and our first peaches seemed much longer graduating from the green condition Into luscious sweetness thin I5lo > do now after Years of hard exp rlence At Olin stage particularly while the shell was ma luring there va no apparent chang for several weeks Spring cornel with a suddenness In Utah which would surprise elsewhere ILS we noticed when In the Ilrltlsh mis all for winter there did linger Into In-to lap of spring Week followed week and while the grA wa tt perennial green the hedgerows In comparison with spring ftt homo beemed unaccountably long In coming Our Impatience vented Itself in laudIng laud-Ing the peace where even the slow locust tree seems to spring to bud and leaf almost In a day > This Impatience of the soul originates origin-ates surely In part at least In Inexpert enc for we all remember how In the war of the rebellion prominent mn counted on settling the whole controversy In ninety tars vet four sad ling years rlopsed ere the proclamation > of coveted peace and the cost of life and treasure so far exceeded ex-ceeded the Impatient conclusion of early history that we marvel how they could hOe ben spent how one million lives went out on the altars or real and fancied patriotism while over three billions In treasure barely covered the cOt and even now thlrtthree sears from the struggle It costs this liberal nation over one hundred and forty million mil-lion dollars annually to furnish pen slonl for the proud survivors or their kin for this conflict or only ninety days doWe We remember In the Christ era the Impatience of some at least of Ills followers when they half petulantly asked Wilt thou not at thl time restore re-store the kingdom to Israel Of precisely Isely the same temperament were the modern promulgators of the selfsame faith and Gospel for most of the early Ciders expected the consummation 01 all things almost a generation ago The winding up scene was looked for within a brief time some very 1m patient things were then said and done Now Ill Is realized that quite a preparatory prepara-tory work was Imperative en for those of the greatest faith ere they could take the kingdom and possess It and not unlikely some of the disappointed dis-appointed had feelings or thoughts akin to the early Christians who In t1ooll persecution and death were asking Where Is I now the promise of Ills coming for since the fathers fell asleep have not all things continued as they were at the beginning Probably sam of the over sanguine of our time think that events mote slowly that the Lord delayeth Ills Coming that justice Is deliberate In meting out the penalty for suffering caused by persecution Imprisonment mobbingdrlvlngii and death Home who endured have long gone home find others have given up the Idea of seeing retribution ai least In their day It Is I quite possible that this Impatience Impa-tience grew out of the action of faith out of an Illuminated vision The revealing re-vealing of the future was HO clear and the recollection thereof ro vivid that the culmination seemed to be at the very door perchance this Impression was needed so that sacrifice might lose It bitterness that trial might be de prlved of Its sting and that contrary to the experience of ordinary human nature a mn might even rejoice In affliction and count nil things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge knowl-edge of the Gospel of Christ Experience bid the soul curb and restrain Its Impatience the fact that the mills of the gods grind slowly Is the dictum of history The Lord Is I not hurried nor Is He slack concerning concern-Ing Ills promisEs al some men count slackness and the strange statement of holy writ that a thousand years are with Him as one das and one day asa as-a thousand years Is I the key to that leisure which to man of our hurrying time Is I almost Inexplicable Modern life Is I essentially rapid Results are looked for almost Instanter Business habits are not congenial with the walt lag anticipation 01 years gone by ecn the brief three score years and ten no freely discounted through the spirit of Impatience Men make haste to get rich and the desire Is I to annihilate annihil-ate time and distance to turn night Into In-to day and make leisure a hurry hethir to rich or poor That with modern facilities a man or woman can Accomplish mar In any given time goes without eavlngbut the fever of Impatient haste destroys the very purpose and Intuit of Invention arid discovery The intending bless line may become an Instrument of suicide when perverted by the heat of ilstakcn rush disguised as enterprise or business or as u demand of life The mind can become so absorbed so engrossed In immediate surroundings that all there Is scorns concentrated Into In-to what la I really but a fraction ot bring If such i hraseologySs compatible compati-ble with this subject measure time as we now comprehend It the span of months years and life the whole Is but a brief absence from old condition where the tandtrd at measurement was different one day a thousand jears That man Is an eternal being Is S easily said bull not so easily comprehended compre-hended but surely the restlessness the worry the feverish haste the Impatience Impa-tience of human desire activity and effort Is I not a chronic feature of all tx istcnce It must only be of the earth earths It belongs to a probation both ends ot which are an enigma only as soul 14 I susceptible to knowledge and understanding which can and must come from rome class of Intelligence who posw the right and exercise Inc power of opening the susceptible seekIng seek-Ing heart A very slight glimpse behind the veil a little ompreheoBlveiess of divine rule and Lesurantle ot an overruling I hand jnevltably broaden the thought I I txpanda the vision affects query and J d 1 r l diminishes doubt the seeker after light learns to possews his soul In patience pa-tience His trust Is I In the living Clod thanoramn 01 life ceases to excite and things which It appeared desirable desira-ble to accomplish and to do so at once things which provoked lose their In fiufne so tar as creating ferment and discontent are concerned Finally It cornea to be If the Lord will and while activity which Is a normal attribute at-tribute of life Is I bound to continue the New Testament or Christphilosophy enters bringing peace take no thought for tomorrow what je shall eat or what ye shall drink or wherewithal where-withal shall ye bo clothed There may be wars and rumors 01 wars and In high places of nations there may be an uncongenial polio or minor thing may mar the peace ot mn even the weather may create comment and be voiced as lately In Impatience Im-patience for rain fearfulness 01 drought and forebodings as to the loss I of crops and labor but by and by the rain comes vegetation is literally full of promise grumbling becomes rebuked re-buked and the old proverb Is I verified j again that everything comes to those that walt Human nature falls to learn all Its lessons at once or even one leon11 at once Time Is I required for all the Processes In wlIch man Is I Interested set that man has achieved a triumph over conditions and events a triumph over the promptings of a perverted human nature 110 can heartily echo the words of the ancient Beer Although Al-though the fig tree shall not bloom neither fhaU fruit be In the vines the labor of the olive hall fall and the fields shall yield no meat the nock shall be cut off from the told and there shall be no herd In the stalls yet I will rejoice In the Lord I will joy In the nod of my salvation Burly Habakkuk was no victim or subject of either ancient or modern Impatience |
