"But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." James i. 4.
Impatience would run over the ground, half do the work, and necessitate its being done over again. But patience cheerfully finishes as it proceeds, thus doing a perfect work. Impatience would elbow its way, and enter without paying its fee, thus incurring the embarrassment of having to walk out again. While patience earns its fee, pays it, and enters to be permanent.
Impatience ascends in a balloon, and does not even think to prepare itself with a parachute, and must necessarily come down with a bump, as soon as its gas is exhausted. While patience, buoyant with hope, steadily climbs the hill of progress, and needs never retrace a step.
