The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-16

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Az is not the panics that kill the mer-
chants. Panics come only once in ten
or twenty years II 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 nat on its face, these men stood up
ana Ielt almost defiant; but their life
Is going away now under the swarm
OF these pestifcrOus anuOyances. The
Lord sent the hornet"
have noticel in the history Of some
that their annOyances are multiplying,
and that they have a hundred where
they used 10 have ten. The naturalist
tells rs that wasp sometimes mas a
family Of twenty thousand Wasps. and
II does seem as II every annoy ance OF
your life broOQed a million. BY the neip
of God / want 20 show you the other
side. The hornet is OF no use2 Oh. yes
The naturalists tell MS they are very i'm
XIII spiders, and they clear the atmos-
phere; and / really believe God sends
the annoyances Of our life upon US 10
XII the spiders OF the soul, ana 10 clear
the atmosphere Of our skies.
These annOyances are sent on us,
think. 10 wake US mp from our lethargy.
There Is nothing that makes man so
lively as a nest of yellow Jackets
and think that these annoyances are
intended TO persuade us OF the fact that
this Is not world for US TO stop IN II
we had a 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 10 correct your opinion. The
Lord sent the hornet
Then 1 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 peg in each hand ana he begins
10 climb, one inch at a time, or two inches,
and getting his strength cultured, reaches
after awhile the ceiling. And il seems to
me that these annOyances in life are a
moral gymnasium, each worriment peg
with which we are TO climb higher and
higher in Christian attainment. We all
love to see patience, but II cannot be
cultured in fair weather. Patience is a
child Of the storm. If you had everything
desirable, and there was nothing more
to get what would you want with pa
tience? The only time to culture IL is
when you are lied about and sick and
oh" you say. If I only had the cir
cumstances Of some well-to-do man
well say. IF it were not for this water
l 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 resurrection, and to have fellowship
with his sufferings.
Nothing but the furnace will ever burn
out Of US the clnker and the Stag. / have
formed this theory in regard TO small an
much trouble TO fit us for usefulness and
for heaven. The only question is wheth-
er we shall take it in the bulk or pulver-
lied and graduated. Here Is one man who
takes it in the bulk. His back Is broken,
or his eyesight put out, or some other aW-
full calamity befalls him; while the vast
majority of people take the thing piece
meal. Which way would you rather have
it2 OF course in piecemeal Better have
five aching teeth than one broken jaw;
better ten fiy-blisters than an am
putation; better twenty squalls than one
cyclone. There may be a difference OF
opinion as to allopathy and homoea-
PATTY; but in this matter of trouble
like homeopathic doses-small pellets
of annoyance rather than some, knock
down dose of calamity. Instead of the
thunderbOlt gives US the hornet. II you
have a bank. you would a great deal
rather that fifty men would come in with
checks less than hundred dollars than TO
have two depositors come in the same
day each wanting his ten thousand dol
lars. In this latter case you cough and
look down to the floor and you look up
at the ceiling before you look into the
safe Now my friends, would you not
rather have these small drafts of annoy
ance on your bank of faith than some all
staggering demand upon your endurance2
But remember that little as well as great
annOyanceS equally require you TO trust
in Christ for succor, and Tor delverance
from imDatience and irritability. Thou
wilt keep him in perfect peace whose
mind is stayed on thee" In the village OF
Hamelin, tradition says, there was an in
KaSlOn
almost devoured the town, and threaten
ed the lives of the population; and the
story is that piper came out one day ana
plaved a very sweet tune, and all the
vermin followed him-rollowed him to
the banks of the Weser, then he blew
blast and then they dropped in and dis
appeared forever. OF course, this is a
fable; but 1 wish I could, on the sweet
flute of the gospel, draw forth all the
nibbling and burrowing annoyances OF
your life and play them down into the
How many touches did Mr.. Church give
to his picture of "SotopaM'' or his Heart
of the Andes?' / suppose about fifty
thousand touches. ] hear the canvass say
ing. why do you keep me trembling with
that pencil so long? Why don't you put
1t on i'm one dash?" NO says Mr.. Church
IT know how to make a painting; it will
take City thousand of these touches. Ana
| want YOU my friends, to understand that
il is these ten thousand annoyances Whlc 7
under God. are making up the picture OF
Your life to he hung at last in the CALLER
les of heaven, fit for angels 10 look at.
God knows how to make picture
/ 30 into sculptor's studio and see him
shaping a statue. He has a chisel in one
hand and a mallet in the other, and he
gives a very gentle stroke-click, click
Click, l say, why don't you strike hard
err" ''Ohi he replies, that would shattei
the statue 1 can't do it that way; / must
do II this way" So he works on, and ar ei
! awhile the features come out, and every
body that enters the studio is charmed ans
fascinated. Well, God has your soul undel
nrOpeSS or Development anu ~ - AiAS hbtiS
! annovauces and VeXations of life that are
chiseiing out your immortal nature. 1t is
| click click click / wonder why some
1 great providence does not come, and witt
1 one stroke prepare you for heaven. An
4 no; God says that is not the way. And Sc
+ he keeps on by strokes of little veXatlons
until at last you shall be a glad spectacle
/ for angels and for men.
You know that a large fortune may be
/ spent in small change, and a vast amount
/ OF moral character may go away in small
/ depletions 1t is the little troubles of life
+ that are having more effect upon yol
than the great ones. A swarm OF locust.
( will kill a grain field sooner than the in
/ cursion of three or four cattle You say
s.Sjrce l lost my child: since l lost my
/ property / have been different man.
I Ruf YOU do not recognize the architecture
of little annoyances, that are hewing, dig
/ cling cutting, shaping, splitting and inter
| Joining your moral qualities. Rats may
1 sink a ship one lucifer match may senC
/ destruction through a block Of store
/ houses Catherine de Medicis got he
death from smelling a poisonous rose. Co
lumbus by stopping and asking for
piece of bread and a drink of water a
4 a Franciscan convent. was led to the dis
/ cover-v of a new world And there is al