CREATION'S PLAN.

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 284, 18 February 1919, Page 11

CREATION'S PLAN.

Hac k of creation’s plan Eove al ways waits, and always acts. Jt always holds joy, but we arc not always in a state to receive it. We are children on a new path, every day, and have a very imperfect conception of earth and its values, and still more impel feet of life and its pos siblMies. Disappointments follow our hopes and wishes delayed, or de nied, until we arc ready to make better use of them. Hut for our ig noranc »*. we would he glad to wait. Hope* gratified at the* wrong time* would I rear bitter fruit. It is better to wait; but waiting D not pleasant, especially to the untrained soul. A wise old writer said: “Let Patience have its perfect work.” Hut IV tience is a growth. We have patiently to wait for patienc eto grow. When it get* a good growth, it is a wonderful transformer. Hut the need to wait for desired objects often reaches u* before patience has grown. We may say he patient, and thu* wc *ugge*t the way to find it. D grows as we try to grow it. Jt is ours to possess, to open, to unfold. It works well mixed into every-day life, ancl always leads to the* light. Because love reigns, many of our hopes must not materialise vciy many of them. There is a great work for patience 111 the hfe of every one. Wc may define nut waiting without worry or grief. It* bedrock is, my Father knows he**. The bud may have a bittei taste, hut sweet will be the flower.