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Updated: June 9, 2025
If fruit is to be brought forth it must be "with patience." The autumn comes, but not all at once. Jesus is always recalling to us the gradualness of nature; first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn. Nothing in nature is in a hurry. It is not a movement of catastrophes, it is a movement of evolution. And so the last word of the parable is to the impetuous.
But the patient expectance of Noah comes out strongly in the story, as well as the gradualness of God's working. Not till 'forty days' a round number after the land appeared, did He do anything. He waited quietly till the path was plain. Eager impatience does not become those who trust in God. It is not said that the raven was sent out to see if the waters were abated.
'He will guide you' suggesting a loving hand put out to lead; suggesting the graciousness, the gentleness, the gradualness of the teaching.
The climbers attain to the measure of the stature of Christ, and they attain at the same time to the unity of the faith. Mark iv. 28. Jesus here falls back, as he so often does, on the gradualness of nature.
And our oppressive difficulty is bound up with this problem, and can be dispelled only by its solution, for the gist of the difficulty is nothing else than the gradualness of human becoming. This is not the place for a thoroughgoing discussion of this problema continui.
Not once alone in the history of Europe has the triumph of a hostile rule in Africa and Spain spelt disaster to our civilization. But if the gradualness of this process misled the Romans there were other and equally potent reasons for their blindness. Most potent of all was the fact that they mistook entirely the very nature of civilization itself. All of them were making the same mistake.
As always, Lincoln the thinker asked no advice. It was Lincoln the administrator, painfully learning a new trade, who was timid, wavering, pliable in council. Behind the apprentice in statecraft, the lonely thinker stood apart, inflexible as ever, impervious to fear. The thinking which he formulated in the late spring and early summer of 1861 obeyed his invariable law of mental gradualness.
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