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date: 1914-01-22

names-on-the-page: Patience, Mrs. H, Mrs. C

transcription: Patience: "To weep is naught, to work is naught, to suffer
counteth not, to bear fruit counteth naught,
for such a debt as thine cannot be paid. And
does thy Heavenly Father demand, when the debt
might have been paid at beginning, and he so willed?

"He who knoweth worth is rich indeed. A golden
coin is deemed a binder for the sand along the
upward way."

"Despise I my brother on a week-a-day, and on the
Sabbath don cloak and doublet, and with them a
love for him -- and use it for a weapon wherewith
to prod his short frock of virtue and expose his
naked belly?"

Mrs. H: "You could say that more politely, Patience."

Patience: "Nay, choose not a puff to feed swine."

Mrs. H: "No, the swine would not appreciate cream puffs
I am sure. Will you go on, Patience?"

Patience: "Deem it fitting to dig deeper when water is there?"

In the very beginning of these sittings it was
understood by some of the people interested that
these messages were coming from spirits of people
who had been near and dear to them in Life. It was some
little time before they gave "Patience" the credit. Even
at this time, when the writings themselves had proven that
they were all from one source Mrs. H. held to the belief
that her mother and Mrs. C's father and some others had
returned to them at these sittings. Because of this belief
she asked Patience on this evening:

"Patience, have you been added to our "clover-leaf?"

Patience: "The stem perchance!"

Jan. 22, 1914
Mrs. C.
Mrs. H.

During dinner there had been some little talk of a
man who had incurred the displeasure of those present
because he had misused an opportunity to boost a young
musician who was struggling for a foothold in his home
city, and incidentally for his daily bread.

Patience: "So then the donkey singeth the wine song!"

Remarks regarding the effect certain criticism that
had fallen upon the gentleman in question might have.

Patience: "A basting but toughens an old goose."

Mrs. H: "He deserves punishment of some sort but I don't
believe it would do much good."

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