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

most In my weaker tflOmonts to bblioVo
whata man said to iiie in Philadelphia
ono Monday morning. l wont to
got tho horse at tho livery stable,
and the hostlor, plain man, said
to mo, "Mr. TalmaBe, / saw
that you preached 10 tho young men
yesterday" said, "Yos." He said:
No use, no uso Mans failure"
Tho small insect annoyances Of lifo
sometimes come 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 sick headache
which has been tho plague Of your lifc,
and you appointsomo occasion Of mirth
or sooiality or usefulness, and whom tho
clook strikes the hour you cannot mako
your appearance. Perhaps tho trouble
is botwcen the car and tho forehead in
the shape Of a neuralgia twig. Nobody
can see it or sympathizo with it, but
just Mt tho timc when you want your
intellcct dearest and your disposition
brightest you feel sharp, keen, dis.
concerning thrust. Tho Lord sont
the hornet"
Perhaps these small.inscot annoyan-
ces will come in the shape Of a domes-
tic irritation. The parlor and tho kit
chon do not always harmonizs. TO got
good service and to keep it is one &c .no
great questions Of tho country. Some
times it may be the arrogance and in
considcratcncss Of employers; but,
whatever be the fact. wo all adn it thoro
are these insect annoyanccs winging
their way out from the culinary depart
ment. If the grace of God be not in
tho heart OF tho housckccpcr, she oan-
not maintaih her equilibrium. Tho
mon como home at night and hear tho
story OF htso annoyanccs and say, ooh,
these homo troubles arc yory littlo
thingsm They arc small, small as
wasp9, but thoy sting. Nlartha's ncr-
,vSs 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
pcstifcrous domestic annoyanccs. "The
Lore sent tho hornot
These small insect disturbances may
also como in tho ehapc Of business irri-
tations. There arc mon hero who went
through the 24th of September, 1869,
and the ranics Of 1873 and Of 1893 with
out'losing their balance who are every
day unhorsed by little annoyanocs-
clerks i'll mannors, ora blot Of ink on a
bill Of lading, or the extravaganza Of a
partner who ovcrdraws his account, or
the undersclling by a business rival, or
the street, or tho making of some little
bad debt which was against your Judge
mont; but you wanted to please some.
body clsc
1t is not tho panics that kill the NOR
chants. Panics como only once in 10 or
20 years. 1t is the constant din of these
everyday annoyanccs which is sending
80 many Of our best merchants into ner-
vous dyspepsia and paralysis and tho
grave. When our national commerce
fell fat on it's face, these men stood up
and felt almost defiant, but their life is
going away now under tho swarm Of
these pcstiferous annoyanccs. 'Thc
Lord sent tho hornet"
have noticed in the history Of some
Of my congregation that their annoyan-
ccs are multiplying and that they havo
a hundred whore they used to have ton.
The naturalist tells us that a wasp
sometimes has family Of 20, 600 wasps,
and it does seem as if every annoyance
Of your life broodcd million. BY the
help Of God, today I want to show you
the other side. The hornet is of nc
use? Oh, yes! The naturalist tells us
they arc very important in tho worlds
economy They kill spiders and they
clear the atmosphere. And really be-
lieve God sends the annoyancos Of our
life upon us to kill the spiders Of the
nd 10 ala 4 H. \ r
skies.
These annoyanccs arc sent on us, [
think, to wake us up from our lcthagy.
There is nothing that makes man SO
lively as nest Of "yollow jackets and
think that these annoyanccs are in
tended to persuade us Of tho fact that
this is not a world for us to stop in.
If wo had bed Of every thing 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. I want to correct your
opinion. ''rhc Lord sent tho hor-
net.
Then think these annoyancos como
on US to cultivate our patience In tho
gymnasium you find upright pt rallol
bars with holes over each othcr for pegs
to be put in. Thcn tho gymnast takes
apcg in each hand, and ho begins to
climb, one inch at a time or two inches,
and getting his strength cultivated,
reaches after while the coiling. And
1T seems to me that these annoyancos
in life arc moral gymnasium, each
worriment a pog with which We arc to
climb higher and higher in Christian
attainment. We all lovo to SEQ patti
enoe, but it cannot be cultivated in
fair weather Patience is child of
the storm If you had everything de-
sirable and there was nothing moro to
get, what would you want with patti
cncc? The only time to cultivate it is
when you arc lied about and sick and
half dead.
"Oh, you say, "if | only had tho
circumstances Of some woll to do man
would bc patient too" You might as
we'll say, "If it were not for this water,
would swim" or. 81 could shoot this
gun if it wcro not for tho cartridge"
Wncn YOU stand chin deep in annoyan-
ccs is tho timc for you to swim out to-
ward the great hcadlands Of Christian
attainment, so as to "know Christ and
the power Of his resurrection and to
have fellowship with his suirorings. {"
Nothing but the furnace will over