Patience in Retreat
Patience is hard, sometimes. Whilst I am climbing the mountains, passing through the wilderness, daring dangers, I feel comparatively quiet, or even glad. But to sit down when the angel tells me to sit, and
Thoghts
Patience in Small Efforts
A poor woman had a supply of coal laid at her door by a charitable neighbor. A very little girl came out with a small fire shovel, and began to take up a shovelful at
The Teaching of The Leaves
O impatient ones! Did the leaves say nothing to you as they murmured, when you came hither to-day? They were not created this spring, but months ago; and the summer just begun will fashion others
More Patience
What we all need is patience. Before we start off for the store we ought to pray for patience. We will be harassed and perplexed. Men will wrong us, and impose upon us, and cheat
A Patient God
Our God is a God of patience—patience long continued but not everlasting. Swift fly the wings of mercy, slow goes the hand of justice; like the shadow on the sun-dial, ever moving, yet creeping slowly
Impatience Rebuked
I remember a few years ago I got discouraged and could not see much fruit of my work; and one morning, as I was in my study, cast down, one of my Sabbath-school teachers came
Rejoicing In Old Age
Look at old age! A friend said to me, a lady, “I hate old age,” and there was a vehemency in it that left me no doubt as to the sincerity of the expression. A
Sad Old Age
It is dismal to get old, without the rejuvenating influence of religion. When we step on the down grade of life, and see that it dips in the verge of the cold river, we want
Growing Old Unconsciously
Old age comes on almost imperceptibly though the young, perhaps will hardly credit it. Men with furrows in their brow, and gray hairs on their head, often find it difficult to remember that they are
Vice in Old Age
According to Aesop, an old woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old wine, and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former contents. She greedily placed it several