The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-12-25

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pie of whom I speak reap and bind in
the great harvest field Of discourage
ment. Some day you greet chem with
a hilarious 'good morning." and they
come buzzing at you with some de-
pressing information. "The Lord
sent the hornet.
When I see so many people in the
world who like to say disagreeable
things, I come almost in my weaker
moments to believe what man said
to me in Philadelphia one Monday
morning. I went to get the horse at
the livery stable, and the hostler, a
plain man, said to me, "Mr. .ralmage,
I saw that you preached to the young
men yesterday ?" I said, eyes. :"
He said: "No use-no use. Mans a
failure" +"
The small insect annoyanoes of life
sometimes come in the shape Of local
physical trouble, which does not
amount to 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
| occasion of mirth or sociality or use
fulness, and when the clock strikes
| the hour you cannot make your ap-
pearance. Perhaps the trouble is be-
| tween 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
intellect clearest and your disposition
brightest you feel a sharp, keen, dis
concerting thrust. 'The Lord sent
the hornet" 7"
| Perhaps these small insect annoyan-
ces win come in the shape ofra domes-
| tic irritation. The parlor and the
| kitchen do not always harmonize. To
get good service and to keep it is one
Of the grestest questions Of the coun-
| try. Sometimes it may be the arro-
ganoy 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 equil-
ibrium. The men come at night and
hear the story Of these annoyances
and say, ooh, these home troubles
are very little thingsr' They are
small, small as wasps, but they sting.
Marthas nerves were all unstrung
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
domestic annoyances. "The Lord
| sent the hornet. -
These small insect disturbances may
also come in the shape of business
irritations. There are men here who
went through 1857 and the 24th Of
September, 1859, without losing their
balance, who are every day unhorsed
by little annoyances-a clerks i'll
manners, or blot Of ink on bill Of
lading, or the extravaganza Of a part
| ner who overdraws his account, or the
underselling by a 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.
Itis not the panics that kill the
| merchants. Panics come only once in
10 or 20 years.. It is the constant din
Of these everyday annoyances which
is sending so many of our best mer-
chants into nervous dyspepsia and
paralysis and the grave. When our
national commerce fell fiat on its face,
these men stood up and felt almost
defiant, but their life is going away
now under the swarm Of these pesti-
ferrous annoyanceB. ''The Lord sent
the hornet.
I have noticed in the history Of
some that their annoyances are multi
plying and that they have hundred
where they used to have ten. The
naturalist tells US that wasp some
times has family of 10000 wasps,
and it does seem as if every annoyance
of your life brooded million. By
the help of God I want to show you
the other side. The hornet is of no
use? Oh, yes (! The naturalists tell
us they are very important in the
worlds economy. They kill spiders,
and they clear the atmosphere, and I
really believe God sends the annoyan-
ces of our life upon US to kill the
spiders of the soul and to clear the
atmosphere of our skies.
These annoyances are sent to US, l
think, to wake US up from our lethar-
gy. There is nothing that makes a
man 30 lively as nest of yellow
Jackets" and I think that these an
noyances are intended 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