The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-12-18


ance, Perhaps the trouble is between
the ear and the forehead, in the shape
of neuralgia twinge Nobody can
see it or sympathize with it; but just
at the time when you want your in
tellect clearest and your disposition
brightest, you feel sharp, keen, dis
concerting thrust. 1.-THE Lord sent the
hornet"
Perhaps these small insect annoy
ances will come in the shape OF do
nestle irritation. The parlor and the
kitchen do not always harmonize. 10
get good service, and to keep 1t, is one
of the greatest questions of the coun'
try. Sometimes it may be the arro-
gancy and inconsiderateness OF en-
ployers, but whatever be the fact, we
all admit there are these insect annoy
ances winging out their way from the
culinary department. If the grace OF
God be not in the heart of the house
keeper she cannot maintain her equl-
librium. The men come home at night
and hear the story Of these annoy
ances, and say: ''Oh, these home
troubles are very little things!" They
are small, small as wasps, but they
sting. Martha's nerves were all un-
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 pestiferous do
mestic annoyances. "The Lord sent
the hornet"
These small insect disturbances may
also come in the shape Of business ir-
ritations There are men here who
went through 1857 and the cath of Sep
tember, 1869, without losing their
balance, who are every day un-
horsed by little annoyances-a clerks
i'll manners, or a blot of ink on
bill of lading, or the extravaganza
of partner who overdraws his ac-
count, or the underselling of business
rival, or the whispering of store conf
dences in the street, or the making OF
some little bad debt which was against
your Judgment, just to please some
body else.
1t is not the panics that kill the mer
chants. Panics only come once in ter
or twenty years. 1t is constant dir
on these everyday annoyances which
is sending so many OF our best mer
chants into nervous dyspepsia ant
: paralysis and the grave. When oul
t national commerce fell fat on its face
s these men stood up and fell almost de
S fiant; but their life is going away nov
y under the swarm of these pestiferou
5; annovances. "The Lord sent tn
Q, hornet
S have noticed in the history of som
3 that their annoyances are multiplying
e and that they have Il hundred wher
t, they used to have ten. The naturali'
n tells us that wasp sometimes has
or family of twenty thousand wasps, an
st it does seem as if every annoyance
y vour life brooded million. BY I'll
re help of God want to show you I'll
te other side. The hornet is of no u.s.
O., Oh. yes! The naturalists tell us the
at are very important in the worlds eco
ne omy; they kill spiders, and they Gle
Id the atmosphere; and | really belle
God sends the annoyances of our Ii
pit upon us to kill the spiders Of the so
'r- and to clear the atmosphere OF o
az skies.
nC These annoyances are sent on us,
re think, to wake us up from our letharg
ne There is nothing that makes man
"a lively as nest of yellow jackets
Die and | think that these annoyances
ne intended to persuade us of the fact tn
this is not world for us to stop in.
,es we had bed of everything that W
IDS attractive and soft and easy, WI
ly- would we want of Heaven? We thi
ire that the hollow tree sends the horn
alt or we may think that the devil ser
I'M the hornet. l want to correct yo
'ou opinion. 1.-THE Lord sent the horne
ore Then l think these annoyances co
ian on us to cultivate our patience. In
10 gymnasium you find upright para
irh bars-upright bars, with holes o
II. IT, each other for pegs to be put in. FL
lCi- the gymnast takes peg in each ht
our and he begins to climb, one inch a
our time. or two inches, and getting
the strength cultured, reaches after awl
hey the ceiling. And it seems to me t
as 4hoso onnoyoncas in life are n me
you gymnasium. each worriment q
with which we are to climb higher
at higher in Christian attainment. We
OF love to see patience, but it cannot
and cultured in fair weather. Patienc'
'cts, a child of the storm. If you had ev'
fter thing desirable, and there was notf
and more to get, what would you want v
'nds patience? The only time to cultur
hey is when you are lied about, and
her and half dead.
ana oh" you say, ''if only had the
ana cumstances of some well-to-do mi
mas would be patient too" You nigh
N as well say: IF it were not for this W
OK! would swim;" or, II could shoot
okeo gun if it were not for the char
; 1or When you stand chin-deep in an
es ances is the time for you to swim
con toward the great headlands OF Chris
tne attainment, SO as to know Christ
'opie the power Of his resurrection, an
this have fellowship with His suffering
I'D Nothing but the furnace will
oo 49, burn out of us the clinlser and the
4;on have formed this theory in regal
and small annoyances and vexations
dis takes JusO 81 iison y.ouole W Nv :
greet useluiness anu io' 0en
ing" How many touches a'd MI IN
with give to his picture of "Cotopaxi' G
'sThe Heart of the Andes?" ! SUI
about fifty thousand touchers.