Article May 20, 1950 Issue

LEARN TO WAIT

MURIEL NELLIS HOLLAND

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.

It is significant that Longfellow in the verse just quoted couples the thought of waiting with the thought of labor or work. Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in her poem "The Mother's Evening Prayer" (Poems, p. 4) refers to the waiting hour in a passage that also suggests activity, not idleness or dullness.

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