We Need Patience
February 17.
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into
divers temptations[or "trials"], knowing this,
that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
JAMES 1, verses 2 and 3.
For patience, when the rough winds blow!
For patience, when our hopes are fading,
When visible things all backward go,
And nowhere seems the power of aiding!
God still enfolds thee with His viewless hand,
And leads thee surely to the Fatherland.
N. L. FROTHINGHAM, from the German.
We have need of patience with ourselves and
with others; with those below,and those above
us, and with our own equals; with those who
love us and those who love us not; for the
greatest things and for the least; against
sudden inroads of trouble, and under our
daily burdens; disappointments asto the
weather, or the breaking of the heart; in
the weariness of the body, or the wearing
of the soul; in our own failure of duty, or
others' failure toward us; in every-day
wants, or in the aching of sickness or the
decay of age; in disappointment,
bereavement, losses, injuries, reproaches;
in heaviness of the heart; or its sickness
amid delayed hopes. In all these things,
from childhood's little troubles to the
martyr's sufferings, patience is the grace
of God, whereby we endure evil
for the love of God.
E. B. PUSEY.
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into
divers temptations[or "trials"], knowing this,
that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
JAMES 1, verses 2 and 3.
For patience, when the rough winds blow!
For patience, when our hopes are fading,
When visible things all backward go,
And nowhere seems the power of aiding!
God still enfolds thee with His viewless hand,
And leads thee surely to the Fatherland.
N. L. FROTHINGHAM, from the German.
We have need of patience with ourselves and
with others; with those below,and those above
us, and with our own equals; with those who
love us and those who love us not; for the
greatest things and for the least; against
sudden inroads of trouble, and under our
daily burdens; disappointments asto the
weather, or the breaking of the heart; in
the weariness of the body, or the wearing
of the soul; in our own failure of duty, or
others' failure toward us; in every-day
wants, or in the aching of sickness or the
decay of age; in disappointment,
bereavement, losses, injuries, reproaches;
in heaviness of the heart; or its sickness
amid delayed hopes. In all these things,
from childhood's little troubles to the
martyr's sufferings, patience is the grace
of God, whereby we endure evil
for the love of God.
E. B. PUSEY.