Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1917 — TAKE TIME TO MEDITATE [ARTICLE]

TAKE TIME TO MEDITATE

Quiet Hours to Act as a Spiritual Directory to Put One in Right Direction. Not long ago I had an experience that set me to thinking about the use of prayer and periods of meditation. I had an important conference to attend and realized that my time was limited in which to reach the place of my engagement. I found 1 had somehow mistaken the address, and knowing that I was getting late, I thought to save time by inquiring. Several persons whom I met and asked were ignorant of the building I wanted. Finally I became fretted and ran into a grocery store to inquire if they knew the name of the person I was seeking. The grocery clerk did not seem to know, but he said, “Have you looked into the directory?” He handed me the book, and very soon I located my party and went off wondering why .1 had not thought to save my time by consulting the directory before. When’ one thinks about it, Jesus seemed to use the quiet times of prayer as a spiritual directory. Hp realized evidently that, despite the needs that pressed upon him from the people whom he came to serve, it saved time send them away occasionally and betake himself to the still air of the mountain for meditation and prayer. Christian Herald.