The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-10-13

| through tne S4tn OF september, lSO0,
and the panics of 1873 anu of 1893 with
out losing their balance who are every
day unhorsed by little annoyances-a
clerks i'll manners, or n blot of ink on
a bill of lading, or the extravaganza of
partner who overdraws his account,
or the whispering of store condolences
in the street, or the making of some
little bad debt which was against your
! judgments; but you wanted to please
somebody else.
1t is not the panics that kill the mer-
chants. Panics come only once in ten
or 20 years. 1t 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 fiat on It's face, these men
stood up and felt almost defiant, but
their life is going away now under the
| swarm of these pestiferous annoyances.
THE Lord sent the hornet"
have noticed in the history Of some
Of my congregation that their annoy
ances are multiplying and that they
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| ten. The naturalist tells us that n wasp
sometimes has family of 10000 wasps,
! and it does seem as if every annoyance
of your life brooded a million. BY the
| help of God, to-day | want to show you
the other side. The hornet is Of no use ?
Oh, yes! The naturalist tells us they
are very important in the worlds econ
omy. They kill spiders, and they clear
the atmosphere. And | really believe
God sends the annoyances of our life
upon us to kill the spiders Of the soul
and to clear the atmosphere of our
skies.
These annoyances are sent on us.
think, to wake us from our lethargy.
There is nothing that makes a man so
lively as n nest of yellow jackets and
| think that these annoyances are in
tended to persuade us of the fact that
this is not a world for us TO stop i'm. If
we had bed of everything that was at
tractiye 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
Lord sent the hornet"
oh" you say, "if only had the cir
cumstances of some well TO do man
would lie patient, too" You might as
well say: "If it were not for this water,
| would SWIM" or, 81 could shoot this
gun If it were not for the cartridge"
When you stand chin deep in annoyances
is the time for you to swim out toward
the great headlands of Christian attain
ment, so as to know Christ and the
power of His resurrection and TO have
fellowship with his sufferngs."
Nothing but the furnace will ever
burn out of us the clinker and the Stag
l have formed this theory in regard to
small aunoyances and vcXations. 1t
takes just so much trouble to fit us for
usefulness and for Heaven. The only
question is whether we shall take ii in
the bulk or pulyerized and granulated.
Here is one man who takes il in the
bulk His back is broken or his eye
sight put out, or some other awful
calamity befalls him, while the vast ma
jority of people take the thing piece
meal. Which way would you rather
have itP OF course, in piecemcal. Bet
ter have five aching teeth than one
broken jaw; better ten fly blisters than
an amputation; better 20 squalls than
one cyclone. There may be difference
of opinion as to allopathy and homeo-
pathy 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 give us the hornet. II you
have bank, you would a great deal
rather that 30 men would come in with
checks less than 500 than to have two
depositors come in the same day, each
wanting his $4,000. In this latter case
you cough and look down to the floor
and you look up to the ceiling before
you look into the safe. Now, my friends,
would you not rather have these small
drafts of annoyance on your bank of
faith than some all staggering demand
upon your endurance? But remember
that little as well as great annoyances
equally require you to trust in Christ for
succor and for deliverunce from impa-
tience and irritability. "Thou wilt keep
him in perfect peace whose mind is
stayed on Thee"
In the village of IIamelin, tradition
says, there was an invasion Of rats, and
these small creatures almost devoured
the town and threatened the lives of the
population; and the story is that piper
came out one day and played a very
sweet tune, and all the vermiu followed
him, followed him to the banks of the
Weser, and then he blew Il blast, and
they dropped in and disappeared for
ever. OF course, this is fable, hut
wish 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 depths for
ever.
How many touches did Mr.. Church
give to his picture of ''Cotopaxi" or his
Heart of the Andes?" / suppose about
$4,000 touches. hear the canvas say
ing; "Why do you keep me trembling