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Show Patience in Waiting. There is all the difference in the world between longing for something which time alone can bring and looking look-ing forward to an end which we are going to consummate or prepare for by our own efforts. The one protracts the intervening hours, the other shortens short-ens them. The child anticipates the holiday, and thinks it will never come. The young man longs to attain his majority ma-jority and the months that elapse seem years. We watch the return of an absent ab-sent friend and each minute grow.s longer than the last. But if we can work while we wait, and so expedite the end in view or prepare the way for it. the impression of length is removed. re-moved. True patience is not inactivity, inac-tivity, it is not sitting still and watching watch-ing the clock, but using the energies in the intervening time to the best advantage. ad-vantage. Let the child be interested in some pleasant preparation for his holiday; let the young man be eagerly fitting himself for the duties he is to assume; let the watcher use his waiting wait-ing moment in sketching some agreeable agree-able plan for his friend's welcome, and the time will move with its accustomed ac-customed celerity. |