The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-10-18

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there are 50 many people in Fae world
who like to say disagreeabte things and
write disagreeable things l come al
most in my weaker moments to believe
what man said to me in Philadelphia
one Monday morning. went to
get the horse at the livery stable,
and the hostler, plain man, said
to me, MIR. Talmage, | saw
that you preached to the young men
Yesterday" l said, YES" He said:
mo use, no use. Mans failure. ="
The small insect annoyances OF LIE
sometimes come in the shape OF local
physical trouble which does not amount
to a positive prostration, but which
botLers you when you want to fesI the
best. Perhaps it is sick headache
which has been the plague OF your me-
and you appoint some occasion OF mlrth
or sociality or usefulness, and when thc
clock strikes the hour you cannot make
vour appearance. Perhaps the trouble
| IS between the ear and the forehead IN
the share of neuralgia twig. Nobody
can see it or sympathize with it, but
lust at the time when you want your
intellect clearest and your disposition
brightest you feel sharp, keen, dis
concerning thrust. The Lord sent
the hornet.
Perhaps these small'insect annoyan-
ces will come in the shape Of a domes-
tic irritation. The parlor and the kit
chen do not always harmonic. To get
good service and to keep is one OF the
great questions of the country. Some
times it may be the arrogance and in
considerateness of employers; but,
whatever be the fact, we all adr it there
are these insect annoyances wlpging
their way out from the culinary depart
ment. If the grace Of God be not in
the heart Of the housekeeper, she can
not maintain her equilibrium. The
men come home at night and hear the
story of hese annoyances and say, "Oh,
these home troubles are very little
| thipgs.m They are small, small as
wasps, but they sting. Martha's Ter.
YES were all unstruog when she rushed
ia asking Christ to Sccld Mary, and
there are tens of thousands of women
who are dying, stung to death by these
pestiferous domestic annoyances. The
Lore sent the hornet. :
These small insect disturbances may
also come in the shape Of business irri-
tations. There are men here who went
through the oath of September, 1859,
and the panics Of 1873 and of 1893 with
out, losing their balance who are every
day unhorsed by little annoyances-a
clerks III manners, or blot of ink on a
bill of lading, or the extravaganza of a
partner who overdraws his account, or
the underselling by business rival, or
the whispering of store confdences in
the street, or the making of some little
bad debt which was against your Judge
ment; but you wanted to please some
body else.
1t is not the panics that kill the mer-
chants. Panics come only oncein 10 or
20 years. Itis the constant din of these
everyday aDnoyances which is sending
so many Of our best merchants into ner-
vous dyspepsia and paralysis and the
grave. When our national commerce
fell fat on its face, these men stood up
and felt almost defiant, but their life is
going away now under the swarm OF
these pestiferous annoyances. The
| Tor5 eant the hornet
have noticed in the history of some
of my congregation that their annoyan-
ces are multiplying and that they have
hundred where they used to have ten.
The naturalist tells US that wasp
sometimes has family of 20, 900 wasps,
and it does seem as if every annoyance
Of your life brooded million. By the
help of God, today l want to show you
the other side. The hornet is Of nc
use? Oh, yes The naturalist tells U:
they are very important in the worlds
economy. They kill spiders, and they
clear the atmosphere. And lreally be-
lieve God sends the annoyances Of oul
life upon US to kill the spiders of the
soul and to clear the atmosphere of oul
skies.
These annoyances are sent on US,
think, to wake US up from our lethagy
There is nothing that makes man 81
lively as nest of yellow jackets, anc
think that these anuoyances are in
tended to persuade US of the fact tina
this is net a world for US to stop in
If we had bed Of everything that wa!
attractive and soft and easy, wha
would we want of heaven? We thin!
that the hollow tree sends the hornet
or we may think that the devil send:
the hornet. want to correct YOU
opinion. The Lord sent the hor
net.
Then I think these annoyances come
on US to cultivate our patience. In the
gymnasium you find upright ptralle
bars with holes over each other for peg:
to be put in. Then the gymnast take!
peg in each hand, and he begins t
climb, one inch at time or two inches
and getting his strength cultivated
reacnes after Wnlle the cel!1nS. anC
it seems to me that these annoyance!
in life are a moral gymnasium, eacE
worriment peg with which We are t
climb higher and higher in Christian
attainment. We all love to see patti
ence, but it cannot be cultivated il
fair weather. Patience is child G.
the storm. If you had everything de-
sirable and there was nothing more t.
get, what would you want with patti
ence? The only time to cultivate it j:
when you are lied about and sick anc
half dead.
ooh, you say, "if l only had The
circumstances Of some well to do man
would be patient too. - You might a:
well say, If it were not for this water