The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1899-10-18

what man said to no in philadolphia
ono Monday morning. l wont to
got tho horse at the Ivory stable,
and tho hostlor, plain man, said
to mo, ''Mr. TalmaEo, I saw
that you preached TO the young mon
yesterday" / said, "Yos." Ho said:
mo uso, no use. Mans failure.
Tho small insect annoyanccs Of life
sometimes como in tho shape of local
| physical trouble which does not amount
toa positive prostration, but which
| bothors you when you want to fol the
best. Perhaps it is a sick headache
which has beon tho plague Of your life,
and you appointsome occasion of mirth
or sooiality or usefulness, and whom tho
olock strikes the hour you cannot mako
your appearance. Perhaps tho trouble
is between tho ear and the forehead in
tho shape of q neuralgia twig. Nobody
can sec it or sympathize with it, but
just at tho time whom you want your
intellect clcarcst and your disposition
brightest you feel sharp. keen, dis
concerning thrust. '"Thc Lord sont
the hornet"
Perhaps these small.inscct annoyan-
ccs will como in the shape Of a dolncs-
tic irritation Tho parlor and tho kit
chon do not always harmonizs. 10 got
good service and to keep it is one &c .llo
great questions Of the country. Some
times it may be tho arrogance and in
consdoratoness of employers; but,
whatever be the fact, wo all adn it there
arc these insect annoyanccs winging
their way out from the culinary depart.
ment. If the grace Of God be not in
tho heart of tho housckccper, sho can
not maintaiA her equilibrium. Tho
mon como home at night and hear the
story OF hese annoyances and say, "Oh,
these homo troubles arc very littlo
thingsln Thoy arc small small as
wasps, but thoy sting Martha's rcr-
YES were all nnstrung when sho rushed
in asking Christ to scold Mary, and
there are tens of thousands of women
who are dying, stung to death by these
pcstifcrous domestic annoyances. "The
Lore scnt the hornot.
These small insect disturbances may
also como in tho shape of business irri
tations. Thore are mon hero who went
through the 24th Of September, 1869,
and the ranics Of 1873 and Of 1893 with
out'losing their balance who arc every
day unhorscd by little annoyances a
clerk IS i'll manners, or blot Of ink on
bill Of lading, or the extravaganza Of
partner who ovcrdraws his account, or
the undcrsclling by business rival, or
the whispering of store condolences in
the street, or tho making of somc little
bad debt which was against your Judge
mont; but you wanted to please some.
body else.
1t is not tho panics that kill the NOR
chants. Panics come only in 10 or
70 years. 1t is the constant din Of these
everyday annoyanccs which is sending
SO many Of our best merchants into ncr-
vous dyspepsia and paralysis and tho
grave. When our national commerce
fell flat on its face, these men stood up
and felt almost defiant, but their life is
going away now under tho swarm of
these pestiferous annoyances. ''Thc
Lord sent the hornet"
have noticed in the history Of somo
Of my congregation that their annoyan-
ces are multiplying and that they havo
q hundred whore thcy used to have ton.
The naturalist tells us that wasp
sometimes has family Of 20, 900 wasps,
and it does seem as if every annoyance
Of your life broodcd million. By the
help Of God, today want to show you
tho other side. The hornet is of no
use? Oh, yes The naturalist tolls us
they arc very important in the worlds
economy. Thcy kill spiders, and they
clear the atmosphere And Ireally be-
licvo God sends the annoyanccs Of our
life upon us to kill the spiders Of the
soul and to clear tho atmosphere of our
skies.
These annoyanccs arc sent on us, [
think, to wake us up from our lethagy.
There is nothing that makes man 80
lively as a nest of yellow jackets, and
think that these annoyanccs are in
tended 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 scnds
the hornet. want to correct your
opinion. THE Lord sent the hor-
| net.
Then ] think these annoyancos como
on US to cultivate our patience. In tho
gymnasium you find upright parallel
bars with holes over each other for pegs
to bo put in. Then tho gymnast takes
a peg in each hand, and he begins to
climb, one inch at time or two inches,
and getting his strength cultivated,
reaches after while the cciling. And
it seems to mo that these annoyanccs
in life arc a moral gymnasium, each
woriment peg with which we are to
climb higher and higher in Christian
attainment. We all loyo to SEQ patti
cnce, but it cannot be cultivated in
fair weather. Patience is child Of
the storm. IF you had everything de-
sirable and there was nothing more to
get, what would you want with patti
cnce? The only time to cultivate it is
| when you are lied about and sick and
half dead.
"Oh, you say, "if only had the
circumstances Of some we'll to do man [
would be patient too" You might as
well say, "1f it wcrc not for this water,
| would SWIM" or, 81 could shoot this
gun it it wero not for tho cartridge"
Waon YOU stand chin dccp in annoyan-
ccs is the timc for you to swim out to-
ward tho great hcadlands Of Christian
attainment, so as to ''know Christ and
the power Of his resurrection and to
have fellowship with his sufrorings."
Nothing but the furnace will ever
burn npt of NO ~ n1:,La. a,