| Show J impatience in a every stage of life lif e this feature is ia quite noticeable the little fellow at the knee longs to be a a man or approach borach thereto he asks when he willbe g e five years old now he asks when he will I 1 be six and he is looking for the time when he will be old enough to be baptized next he will inquire how long atwill at it will be before he can take a mission or perchance an education a trade or marriage will be the object of his solicitude and time will lag days and even hours will seem to be as if the coveted thing would never come first experience in planting a garden constitutes an amusing reflection it beems forever waiting for germina genima f tion peas and potatoes become special objects of interest and the planted atie Kt ie is long ions in putting forth its leaves p aad still longer in blooming for the ex l specter pecked fruit and our first peaches t seemed much longer graduating from 1 the green condition into luscious y sweetness than they khey do now atter after H years of hard experience at one stage particularly while the shell was maff 11 turing there was no apparent change y several weeks 11 1 1 for J spring cornea comes with a suddenness in 1 utah which would surprise elsewhere y as we noticed when in the british mis aron for winter there did linger in div the lap of spring week followed week and while the grass was a green the hedge rows in 9 comparison with spring at home fc seethed unaccountably long in coming I 1 oter impatience vented itself in laud lug the peace where even the slow locust tree seems to spring to bud and ap leaf almost in a day this impatience of the soul origin ate surely in part at least in inexpert y F jence fence for we all remember how in the cywar war of the rebellion prominent latten en counted on settling the whole controversy in ninety days r sa E y yet Y tour four sad long years elapsed ere the 15 proclamation of coveted peace and the cost of life and treasure so far exceeded the impatient conclusion of r caray history that we marvel how they e arly could have been spent how one million ii lives a went out on the altars of real and fancied Patriotism while over three fy bil ne in m treasure barely covered the cost and even now thirty three years the struggle gle it costs coats this liberal a netlon on over one hundred and forty mily s it gaii dollars annually to furnish pen for the proud survivors or their kin for this conflict of only ninety i dy vt f we remember in the christ era we tw e impatience of some at least of his followers when they half petulantly i ed wilt thou not at this time re stai ditore e the kingdom to israel of pre s casely the same temperament were the vt modern promulgators of the selfsame self same r batth atta and gospel for most of the early elders expected the consummation of gal all things almost a generation ago il 5 1 e abe winding up scene was looked for bip i within a brief time some very im patient things were then said and done dohe 1 now it is realized that quite a I tory work was imperative even for f of the greatest faith ere they fg could take the kingdom and possess aff fals it and not unlikely some of the dis appointed had feelings or thoughts akin to the early christians who in turmoil persecution and death were asking ael cing where is now the promise of hit coming for since the fathers fell alleea have not all things continued us they were at the beginning probably some of the over sanguine j r of our time think that events move V alaway that the lord dela yeth his hafting ting that justice is deliberate in ggs mating out the penalty for suffering used by persecution imprisonment pg sh and death some who endured have long gone home and others have given up the idea of seeing retribution at least in their day it is quite possible that this impatience grew out of the action of falth faith out of an illuminated vision the revealing of the future was so clear and the recollection thereof so vivid that the culmination seemed to be at the i very door Perc perchance hanew this impression was needed so that ww sacrifice might lose it bitterness that trial might be deprived of its sting and that contrary axy to the experience of ordinary human hilman nature a man might even rejoice in affliction and count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of the gospel of christ experience bids 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 not hurried nor is ii he slack concerning his promises as some men count slackness and the strange statement of holy writ that a thousand years are with him as one day and one day as a thousand years is the key to that leisure which to man of our hurrying time is almost inexplicable modern life is essentially rapid results are looked for almost instant ins ert business habits are not congenial with the waiting anticipation of years gone by even the brief three score years and ten are freely discounted through the spirit of impatience men make haste to get rich and the desire Is to annihilate time and distance to turn night in ina to day and make leisure a irony hurry whether to rich or poor that with modern facilities a man or woman can accomplish more in any given time goes without saying but the fever of impatient haste destroys the very purpose emu ana intent of invention a and rid discovery the intending blessing may become an instrument of suicide when perverted by the heat of mistaken rush disguised as an enterprise or business or as a demand of life the mind can become so absorbed so engrossed in immediate surroundings that all there id seems concentrated into what is really but a fraction of being if such phraseology is compatible with this subject measure time as we now comprehend it the span of months years and life the whole te is but a brief absence from old conditions where the standard of measurement was different one day a thousand years that man is 18 an eternal being is easily said budnot but not so easily comprehended but surely the restlessness the worry the feverish haste the impatience of human desire activity and effort is not a chronic feature of all existence it must only be of the earth earthy it belongs to a probation both ends of which are an enigma only as soul is susceptible to knowledge and understanding which can and must come from some class of intelligence who possess the right and exercise the power of opening the susceptible seeking heart A very slight glimpse behind the veli veil a little comprehensiveness comprehensive nesti of divine rule and assurance of an overruling hand inevitably broaden the thought expands the vision affects query and diminishes doubt the seeker after light learns to possess his soul in patience his trust is 10 in the living god the panorama of life ceases to excite and things which it appeared desirable to accomplish and todo to do so at once things which provoked lose their in fluence so far as creating ferment and discontent are concerned finally it comes comee to be if the lord will and while activity which is a normal attribute of life is bound to continue the New Testament or christ philosophy enters bringing peace take no thought for tomorrow what ye shall eat or what ye shoal shall drink or where withal shall yb be clothed there may be wars and rumors of wars and in high places of nations there may be an uncongenial policy or minor things may mar the peace of 0 men even the weather may create comment and be voiced as lately la in impatience for rain tearfulness fearfulness of drought and forebodings as to the low of crops and labor but by and by the oft rain comes vegetation to Is literally full fan of promise grumbling becomes rebuked and the oad proverb Is verified d again that everything comes to those that walt human nature falls to learn all its lessons at once or even one lesson all at once time is required for all the processes in which man is interested yet that man has achieved a triumph over conditions and events event 13 a triumph over the of a perverted human nature who can heartily jefto the words of the ancient seer beer although the fig tree shall not blossom neither shull shall fruit be in the binem the labor of the olive shall fall fail and the fields shall yield no meat the flock shall be cut oft off from tafe fold and there shall be no herd in the stalls yet I 1 will rejoice in the L lord 0 rd I 1 will joy in the god of my salvation 11 surely habakkuk was no victim or subject of either ancient or modern impatience |
