The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-12-20

depressing, and by the help OF God I
have kept the resolution. These peo-
pie OF whom / speak reap and bind in
the great harvest-leld OF discourage
ment. Some day you greet them with
an hilarious good morning" and they
come buzzing at you with some depress-
ing information. "The Lord sent the
hornet"
When l see so many people in the
world who like to say disagreeable
things, and write disagreeabie things,
come almost in my weaker moments
TO believe what a man said TO me in
philadelphia one Monday morning. /
went to get the horse at the livery sta
BILE, and the hostler. plain man, said
to me. "NIr. Talmage, saw that you
preached to the young men yesterday"
said, Eyes" He said 'No use, 10 use;
mans failure"
Perhaps these small insect annoy
ances will come in the shape of do
nestle irritation. The parlor and the
kitchen do not always harmonic. To
get good service and to keep 1t, is one
OF the greatest questions Of the coun-
try. Sometimes it may be the AFRO
gancy and inconsiderateness of employ
ers, but, whatever be the fact, we all
admit there are these insect annoy
ances winging their way out from the
culinary department. If the grace OF
God be not in the heart of the house
keeper, she cannot maintain her equili-
brium. The men come home at night
and hear the story of these annoyances.
and say, "Oh, these home troubles are
very little thingsw They are small,
small as wasps, but they sting Nartha's
nerves were all unstrung when she
rushed in, asking Christ to scold Mary,
and there are tens of thousands of wom-
en- who are dying, stung to death by
these pestiferous domestic annoyances.
THE Lord sent the hornet"
These small insect disturbances may
also come in the shape of business irri-
tations. There are men here who went
through 1857 and the oath of September,
1869, without losing their balance, who
are every day endorsed by little an
noyances-a clerks i'll manners, or q
blot of ink en- bill of lading, or the
extravaganza Of partner who over
draws his account, or the underselling
by business rival, or the whispering
OF store condolences in the street, or
the making of some little bad debt
which was against your judgment, just
to please somebody else.
fc he I-tlf
merchants. Panics come only once in
ten or twenty years. 1t is the constant
din of these everyday annoyances
which is sending sc many of our best
merchants into nervous dyspepsia and
paralysis and the grave. When our ma
tional commerce fell fiat on its face,
these men stood up and felt almost de-
fiant; but their life is going away now
under the swarm of these pestiferous
annoyances. The Lord sent the hor-
net"
These annoyances are sent on us,
think, to wake us up from our lethargy.
There is nothing that makes a man so
lively as nest of yellow jackets" and
l think that these annoyances are in
tended to persuade us of the fact that
this is not world for us to stop in
If we had bed of everything that was
attractive and soft and easy, what
would we want of heaven? We think
that the hollow tree sends the hornet,
or we may think that the devil sends
the hornet. / want to correct your
opinion. The Lord sent the hornet"
Then / think these annoyances come
on us to culture our patience. In the
gymnasium, you find upright parallel
bars-upright bars with holes over each
other for pegs to be put in. Then the
gymnast takes a peg in each hand and
he begins to climb, one inch at a time,
or two inches, and getting his strength
cultured, reaches after awhile the cell
ing. And il seems to me that these an
noyances in life are a moral gymna-
stun, each worriment peg with which
we are TO climb higher and higher in
Christian attainment. We all love to
see patience but it cannot be cultured
in fair weather Patience is a child of
the storm. If you had everything de-
sirable, and there was nothing more to
get, what would you want with pa
thence? The only time to culture it is
when you are lied about, and sick and
half dead.
oh you say, "if only had the cir
cumstances of some well-to-do man
would be patient, too" You might as
we'll say, IF it were not for this water
| would SWIM or, 81 could shoot this
gun If it were not for the charge"
When you stand chin-deep in annoy
ances is the time for you to swim out
toward the great headlands of Christian
attainment, SO as to know Christ and
ke power of his resurrection, and to
have fellowship with his sufferings.
Nothing but the furnace will ever
burn out OF us the clinkcr and the
Stag. have formed this theory in re-
gard to small annoyances and vexa-
tions. 1t takes just so much trouble to fit
us for usefulness and for heaven. The
only question is, whether we shall take
1t in the bulk or pulverized and granu-
lated. Here is one man who takes it
in the bulk. His back is broken. or his