The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-20

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out flew the hornet. When I see that
there are 50 many people in the world
who like to say disagreeable things
and write d~isagreeable things, / come
almost in my weaker moments TO be-
lieve what a man a to ne in Phfla-
delphia one Monday morning. / went
to get the horse ait the livery stable,
and the hostler, a plain man, said TO
me, NJ Talmage, | saw that YOU
preached TO the young men yesterday"
I said. Yes" He said: M use, no
use. Mans a failure"
DOMESTIC DISTURBANCES.
The small insect of lie
sometimes come in the shape Of local
SERMON .
physical trouble which does not
amount to a positive prostration, but
which bothers you when you want to
feel the best Perhaps il Is a sick
headache which has been plague OF
your life, and o appoint some occa-
sion Of mirth or sociality or usefulness.
| and when the clock strikes the hour
you cannot make your appearance.
Perhaps the trouble is between the
ear and the forehead in the shape of
a neuralgia twinge. Nobody can see il
or syrnpathiZe with it, but just at the
time when you want your Intellect
dearest and your disposition brightest
you feel a sharp. keen, ~disconcerting
thrust. The Lord sent the hornet"
Perhaps these small insect annoy
ances will come in the shape Of a CO.
nestle irritation The parior and the
kitchen do not always harm JniZe. To
| get good service and to keep It is one CT
the great questions Of the country.
Sometimes it may be the
ana inconsiderateness Of 'rrpl"yerS;
but, whatever be the fact, we all admit
I~-- AL~-@ -o. ~ nxu a
winging their way out from the cult
nary department. If the grace Of God
be not in the heart of the housekeeper,
| she cannot maintain her equilibrium
| The men come home at night and hear
| the story of these ~annoyances and say,
| oh, these home troubles are very lit
| tie things" They are small, small as
] wasps, but they sting. Martha's nerves
! We're 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 pes
tiferous domestic annoyancas. The
| Lord sent the hornet"
These small insect disturbances may
also come in the shape of business ir-
rftations. There are men here who
| went through the Path of September
| 1869, and the panics of 1873 and Of
! 1893 without losing their balance who
are every day endorsed by little an
noyances-a clerks i'll or a
| blot of ink on a bill of 1ading, or the
extravaganza of a partnerwho over
draws his account, or the underselling
by a business rival, or the whispering
of store condolences in the street, or the
making of some little bad debt which
was against your Judgment but you
wanted to please somebody else.
1t is not the panics that kill the mer-
chants. (Panics come only once in 10 or
20 years. 1T is the constant din of these
everyday which is sending
so many of our best merchants into
nervous dyspepsia and paralysis and
the grave. When our national COM
merce fell fiat ON its face, these men
stood up and felt almost defiant, but
their life is going away now under the
swarm of these pestiferous annoy
ances, 'The Lord sent the hornet
KEEP ON MOVING.
1 have noticed in the history of some
of my congregation THAT their annoy
ances are multiplying and that they
have ten, The naturalist tells us that
have ten. The naturalist TELLS us that
a wasp sometimes has a family of 20
900 wasps, and it does seem ais if every
annoyance of our life broOded a mil
lion. By the help of God, today l 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 economy. They kill spiders,
and they clear the atmosphere. And
/ really believe God sends the annoy
ances of our life upon us ITO kill the
spiders of the soul and to clear the at
mosphere of our skies.
These are sent on us, /
think, to wake is up from our lethar-
gy. There is nothing that makes a
man SO lively as a nest of yellow jack
ets,' and l think that these annoy
dnceS are intended to persuade us OF
the fact THAT this is not a world for
us to stop in. If we had a bed Of v
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 thai
the devil sends the hornet. I want tt
correct your opinion. 1.-The Lord sen
the hornet"
Then I him these ~annoyances come
on us to cultivate our patience. In thu
gymnasium you find upright parable
bars with holes over each other fO1
pegs to be put in. Then the gymnas
takes a peg in each hand, and he be
gins to climb, one inch at a time o.
two inches, and, getting his strength
cultivated, reaches after awhile tn
ceiling. And it seems to me that thes
annoyances inlife are a moral gymna
Slulu, 6dCIl WOII IIIlSlt- u pSS Will I'M
we are to climb higher and higher ii
Christian attainment. We all love t.
E see patience, but it cannot be cultivat
ed in fair weather. Patience is a chill
of the system. If you had every-hin,
desirable and there was nothing NOR
! ito get, what would o want with pa
thence? The only time to cultivate
is when you are lied about and sicl
and half dead.
! oh" say eff I only had the cir
cumstances of some we'll to do man
. would be patient 90" You might a
: we'll say, IF it were not for this wa
, ter, I would swim," or, 81 could shoe
! this gun if it were not for the car
fridge" When you stand chin dee
!, in nnoyance is the time for you t
: swim out toward the great headland
: of Christian attainment, so as t
know Christ and the power of hi
resurrection and to have FELLOWSHIP
: with his sufferings."
!, RUS IN CHRIST.
Nothing but the furnace will eve