When men go up in balloons they take with them bags of sand for ballast, and when they want to rise higher they throw out some...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...