PATIENCE AND STUPIDITY

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1686, 22 June 1904, Page 77 (Supplement)

PATIENCE AND STUPIDITY

How hard it is to be kindly or even just to men who are intellectually obtuse and dull. The reality and seriousness of the trouble they give it is impossible to deny and difficult to exaggerate. There are men who are always misunderstanding what they have to do, or the way in trliich they have to do it. They are very slow in comprehending what we say to them and when, as the result of tedious and repeated. explanations. they have caught a glimpse of our meaning, they seem quite unable to retain it. hey weary

and exhaust the patience of the most gentle and enduring of their friends, by relapsing into mistakes which have been a hundred times corrected. They are often good-hearted and devout, but so deficient in clearness and quickness of vision that they irritate more active-minded people almost beyond endurance. Th r only true wisdom is to accept the inevitable; and. if we wish to “fulfil the law of Christ,” we shall bear it as cheerfully as we can. No/keen shafts of angry contempt will toake. these unfortunate nni a whit more rational.—R. W. Dale, D.D 1