Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-16

PERHAPS these small insect annoy
anccs viii come in the shape Of q DO
nestle irritation The parlor and the
kitchen do not always harmonic. 10
get GOOD service. and keep it, is one OF
the greatest questions of the country.
Sometimes Dc may be the arrOgancy ana
considerations OF the employer, but,
whatever be the fact. we all admit that
there are these insect 3nnOyances wing
ing their way out from the culinary de-
paglment IL the grace of God be not
in the heart Of the h0Usekeeper, she
cann0- maintain her equilibrium. The
men come home at night and hear the
story OF these annoyances. and say, on,
these home troubles are very little
things They are small, small as
wasps. but they sting. Nartha's nerves
were all uustrUng when she rushed in,
asking Christ to sc0ld Mary. and there
are tens Of thousands OF women who
are dying. stung TO death by these pesti-
ferrous domestic annCyanCes. THE Lord
sent the hornet"
THESE SMALL INSECT DISTUR-
BANCES.
may also come in the shape Of business
iritations. There are men who went
\through 1851 and the oath Of September,
1850, without losing their balance, VINO
are every day endorsed by little an
nOyances. q clerks III manners, or q
blot of ink on q bin of lading, or the eX-
trayagance of O partner who OverdraWS
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 10
please somebody else.
it Is not The panics that kill the mer-
chants. Panics come only once in ten
OF twenty years il is the constant din
Of these everyday annOyalces which is
sending SO many of our best merchants
into nervous dyspepsia and paralysis
and the grave. When our national COM
meIce fen Tat en- it's face, these men
stood uD and felt almost defiant; but
their life is COINS away now under the
swarm of these pestiferOus annoy
ances. THE Lord sent the hornet.
have noticed in the history Of some
that their annoyances are multiplying,
and that they have q hundred where
they used to have ten. The naturalist
tells us that q wasp sometimes has a
family Of twenty thousand wasps, and it
does seem as If every annoyance OF your
life brOoded q million. by the help Of
God I want 20 show YOU the other side.
The hornet Is of no use? On, yes! The
na.uralsts tell us they are very im-
p0rtaut in the worlds economy; they
kill spiders. and .hey clear the atmos-
phere; and I really believe God sends
the annOyances OF our life upon us TO
Kin The spiders of the soul. and 20 clear
the atmosphere Of our skies.
THESE ANNOYANCES
are sent to us. / think. 10 wake us up
from cur leJhargy. There is nothing
that makes q man so lively as q nest OF
yellow jackets" and think that these
annoyances are intended to persuade
us Of the fact that this is not a world
for us TO stop in. II we had a bed OF
everything that was attractive and sOfc
and easy, what would we want in
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
Ilan i think these announces come
on ps To- culture cur patience. In the
gymnasium you find upright parallel
ba.5-uQr.ght bars. with holes over each
C. her Tor pegs 10 be put in. Then the
symnast takes q peg In each hand and
ne beg.ns 10 elmo. one Inch &c a time.
or two inches. and getting his strength
cultured reaches after @ while the cell
ing And g, seems to- me that these an
r1yanccs in lie are a moral gymnasium,
each W0rriuenta peg w-.h which we are
90 climb higher ana higher IN Christian
attachment We an love TO see patience
but IT. can not be cultured in fair wealth
er. Patience e "a child cf the storm.
II you had everything Gesirable. and
there was nothing more 10 get. wha.
would you Want with patience? The
only time To- culture 60 is when YOU are
licl about. and sick and half dead.
con. you say III l only had The cir
cumstances OF some Well-,0-do-man I
would De patient too. You might as
well say. IL iJ we're not for this water
I would SWIM or. "I could shoot this
gun II 30 were not Cor the charge" When
You stand chin-deep in ann0yances IS
the time for you TO swim out toward the
grea, headlands CT
CHRISTIAN ATTAINMENT
so as 10 know Christ and the power Of
his resurrection. and to have fellowship
with his sUnerings.
Nothing but the furnace VIII ever
burn on, Of Us the clinker and the Stag
/ have formed jhis theory In regard TO
small annOyances and veXalOns. 1t
takes Just so much trouble to fit US for
usefulness and FOR heaven. The only
question Is, whether we shall take e in
The bulk or pulver,zed and granula,ed.
Here is one man who takes It in the
bulk His back is broken, or his eye
SIGH pu. ont or some O,her awful ca
l2m.tv befolls him. while the vast ma
+ j0r.rv OF people take The thing piece
meal Watch way would you rather
have it? or course in piecemeal. Be-
ter have i've aching teeth than one
broken jaw: better ten fly blisterS than
en- amput9tiCn: better twenty squalls
E than one cyclone. There may be a dif-
/ ference Of opinion as to allopathy and
f homeopathy, but In this matter Of tr0u-
+ BE 7 like homOecDa-hic dOses-smal
ne'le.s cf annoyance rather than some
F knOck-d0wn dose CT calamity. Instead
f az the thunder bolt give us the hornet.
If YOU have bank. YOU would a great
deal rather that " men would come
in with checks less han q hundred dol
l,rs than 20 have -w0 tepcsit0rS come
in the same day each wanGng his ten
thousqrf dollars In this latter case
you cough and lccS down 10 the floor.
end Won look uD as the ceiling, before