The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-12-20


The small insect annoyances of life
sometimes come in the shape of local
physical trouble, which does not
amount to a positive prostration, but
which bothers you when you want to
feel the best Perhaps it is sick
headache which has been the plague
of your life. and you appoint some &C
casion of mirth, or sociality. or useful
ness, and when the clock strikes the
hour you cannot make your appear
ance. Perhaps the trou BILE is between
the ear and the forehead, in the shape
of a neuralgia twinge. Nobody can
see it or sympathize with it; but just
at the time when you want your intel
lect clearest, and your disposition
brightest. you feel sharp, keen, dis.
concerning thrust The Lord sent
the hornet"
Perhaps these small insect annoy
ances will come in the shape of do.
nestle irritation. The parior and the
kitchen do not always harmoniZe. To
get good service, and to keep it is one
of the greatest questions of the coun'
try. Sometimes it may be the AFRO
gancy and inconsiderateness of en-
ployers, 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 equi-
librium. The men come home at night
aud hear the story of these annoy.
ances, and say, 'Oh, these home
troubles are very small things! They
are small. small as wasps. but they
sting. Martha's nerves were all IN
strung when she rushed in, asking
Christ to scold Mary, and there are
tens of thousands of women who are
dying. stung to death by these pest
ferrous domestic annovances. The
Lord sent the hornet"
1t is not the panics that kill the mer-
chants Panics come only once in ten
or twenty years 1t is the constant
din of these everyday annoyances
which is sending so many of our best
merchants into nervous dyspepsia and
paralysis and the grave. When our
national commerce fell fiat on its face,
faint: but their life is going away now
under the swarm of these pestiferous
annovances The Lord sent the hor-
net"
/ have noticed in the history of some
that their annoyances are multiplying
and that they have 100 where they
used to have ten. The naturalist tells
us that the wasp sometimes has a
family of 10000 wasps. and it does
seem as if every annoyance of your
life brooded LOCO. 900. BY the help OF
God ! want to show YOU the other side.
The hornet is of no use? On, yes. The
naturalists tell Us they are very i'm
portaut in the worlds economy; they
kill spiders, aud they clear the atmos.
phere; and | really believe God sends
tine auuovances OF our life upon US to
kill tbs spiders of the soul, and To cleaI
the atmosphere of our skies.
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 ceiling. And it seems to me that
these anBOyances in life are a moral
i gymnasium. each wOrriment a peg.
with which we are to climp higher and
higher in Christian attainment We
all love TO see patience, but it cannot
he cultured in fair weather Patience
i child of the storm. If you had
everything desira BILE, and there was
nothing more TO get. what would You
want with patience? The only time
to culture it is when you are lied
about. and sick and half dead.
oh" you say, If ] only had the
circumstances of some well-to-do man
| would be patient, too" Hou might
as we'll say. If it were not for this
water ! would SWIM or. Il could
shoot this gun if it were not for the
charge" When you stand chin deep
in annoyances Is the time for you to
swim out toward the great headlands
of Christian attainment, SO as to know
Christ and the power of His resurrec-
ton, and to have fellowship with His
sufferings.
Nothing but the furnace will ever
burn out of us the clinker and the Stag.
l have formed this theory in regard to
small annoyances and vexations. 1t
takes Just so much trouble to fit US for
usefulness and for Heaven. The only
question is, whether we shall take il
in the bulk or pulverized and granu-
lated. Here is one man who takes IT
in the bulk. His back is broken, or
his eyesight put out, or some other
awful calamity befalls him: while the
vast majority of people take the thing
piecemeaL Which way would you
rather nave it? OF course in
pieeemeaL Better have FIVE aching
teeth than one broken jaw; better
ten fly blisters than an amputation:
better 20 squalls than one cy-
clone. There may be a difference of
opinion as to allopathy and home
opathy; but in the matter of trouble /
like homeopathic doses-small pellets
of annoyance rather than some knock
down dose of calamity. Instead of the
thunderbolt give US the hornet II
you have a bank, you would a great
deal rather that so men would come in
with checks less than 500 than to have
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